Laboratoire de Recherche en Biochimie et Toxicologie de l'Environnement (LaRBiTE), Département de Biochimie et de Biologie Cellulaire, Faculté des Sciences et Techniques (FAST), Université d'Abomey-Calavi (UAC), 01 BP 526 Cotonou, Benin
In Benin, cultures are submitted to animals attacks and harmful plants. Such situations cause defoliation and destruction of the plants, thus causing huge losses to farmers. To reach the end of such situations, herbicides, insecticides and fertilizers are now being used in higher quantities than past. Even if the use of pesticides to fight weeds and parasites has increased the food crops, it also bads to their contamination. The purpose of this work is to evaluate the level of cassava tubers contamination by the use of pesticides in the township of Djidja (Benin). Nine (09) cassava samples were collected in nine (09) cotton fields in three (03) villages (Zakan Kossossa, Fonkpodji, Aklinm
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