Essay- Warning from Parthenium Weeds

WARNING! PARTHENIUM WEEDS

Written & Pic by - Rupesh Kumar Samanta / 28.04.2018

    You lovingly gifts a bunch of white Parthian flowers to your little son or daughter! You are happy to share his/her happiness! But once you do not realize that you do a great damage to your little son/daughter! Deadly damage! In the summer, when there is a little rain, the parthianum trees grow beside the streets. It’s a trap of death!

----- Introduction to trees ---

     It is like a bush. The leaves are green and the flowers are white. These are a toxic weed. The plant is usually up to 1 to 1.5 meters in height. Flowers bloom at a certain age. The trees are survived three or four months. During this time, flowers and seeds are grown thrice. There are round, white flowers. About 25 thousand seeds are born from a tree of Parthenium. Locally it is called carrot grass also. Scientific name is 'Parthenium hysterophorus'.

---- Accommodation -----

Parthenium is basically seen in different countries including Mexico, America, Africa, West Indies, India, Pakistan, China, Nepal, Australia, and Bangladesh. This tree is located on the side of the road, around the house, in forests or in the field of crops.

----- Expansion of tree -----

 Its seeds are very small. It usually spreads with dung, car wheel, pedestrian shoes, irrigation water and air. These trees have been imported from our country from abroad. Many people say that the foreigners merged the seeds with wheat exported in India to spread a partcular disease with the intention of selling a particular medicine.

------ Chemical materials -----

Perthenium contains harmful chemicals. It contains Sesquiterpene Lactones which is toxin or poison. This poison is made of Caffeic acid, Vanillic acid, Ansic acid, P-anisic acid, Chlorogenic acid, Ges Parahydroxy benzoic acid.

----- Harmful Effects -----

1. If the Parthenium is in the hands and feet of man, it may become red. It also itches. It may cause cancer on the skin.

2. Persons suffering from Parthenium can suffer from frequent fever, uncomfortable headache and hypertension.

3. From the distance of ten meters, this flower can cause allergic, asthma diseases.

4. Parthenium weed is found in cattle grazing ground. Animal body is swelled. Acute fever and indigestion symptoms are seen.

5. If cows eat these tree, the milk becomes bitter. If this kind of milk is drunk, it leads to death.

6. This poisonous weed releases a kind of chemical substance that can damage both insects and crops.

7. If the Parenium is on the cultivated land, the crop production decreases by about 40 percent.

8. Parthenium decreses production of tomato, pepper.

9. Parthenium releases one type of chemical substances which destroy the bacteria that help boosting the production of nitrogen in the pulses.

----- Perthenium suppression -----

1. This weed can be burnt.

2. The trees can be cut and buried in the deep.

3. Weeds can be suppressed by using insecticides.

4. Plants can be uprooted during growing.

5. Be aware of the environment.

Written & Pic by - Rupesh Kumar Samanta / 28.04.2018