This community service project aims to avoid the usage of chemicals on fruits and vegetables. The team conducted surveys in a village and fruit ripening community. They found that farmers commonly use pesticides to increase crop yields, but pesticide residues can remain on produce and cause health issues when consumed. The fruit ripening community was previously using the harmful chemical calcium carbide to artificially ripen fruits. The team's goal is to promote more natural and organic farming techniques like vermicompost and biofertilizers to reduce chemical usage and pesticide exposure from foods.

1. COMMUNITY SERVICE PROJECT
TO AVOID USAGE OF CHEMICALS ON
FRUITS AND VEGETABLES
SAI RAJESWARI INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
Department of Computer Science & Engineering
Y.SRAVANI 208R1A0558
R.SOMESWARI 208R1A0540
D.KULLAI SWAMY 208R1A0518
D.SUSMITHA 208R1A0519
A.SANA MUSKAN 208R1A0502
Under the Guidance of
Dr. G. Ramasubba Reddy
Professor & Head

2. Abstract
The main objective of this Community
Service Project is to “identify the social issues
and generate the solutions for the particular
project by conducting the survey”.In this CSP, we
assigned with a project of “TO AVOID THE USAGE
OF CHEMICALS ON FRUITS AND VEGETABLES ”.In
agriculture we use chemicals likes
pesticides,fertilizers. These chemicals are
particularly dangerous in fruits and vegetables by
which people are exposed to them.The
widespread use of chemicals will mainly impact
on humans like disease ,health issues etc and
these chemicals accumulate into fruits and
vegetables .Finally the aim of these project is to
avoid the usage of chemicals in fruits and
vegetables by applying some methods. 1

3. Introduction
In the past decade there has been a tremendous increase in the yields
of various crops to meet the demand of overgrowing population,
achieved by chemicals.
In the agriculture they used the chemicals like pesticides.Theses
pesticides residues on fruits and vegetables such as DDT, Aldrin,
Chlordane and Heptachlor.
 By eating these chemical-mixed foods people are falling a victim to
cancer, lung damage, loss of appetite, irritability problems.
In the fruit Ripening process they use the chemicals like calicum
carbide .
Ripening is the process by which fruits attain their desirable flavor,
quality , color ,texture ,sweetness and even appetizing smell.
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4. COMMUNITY SURVEY
In these community service project we survey on two different
communities:
1. Visting the Chapadu village
2. Visting Fruit Ripening community
 Chapadu village is one of the community we went.In these village we
met the farmer for collecting the information about usage of
chemicals on fruits and vegetables.
 Mandil Bazar is one of the community present in proddatur .In these
community they used too ripen the fruit.
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5. Visting the Chapadu village
1.Pesticides are used to reduce damage to crops from
insects,germs and rodents which increases the yields of
fruits,vegetables and otjer crops
2.Residual amount of these chemicals present on the food
3.The pesticides residue cannot be easily removed with plain
water
4.High levels of pesticides in food can lead to the development
of diseases.
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6. HOW THE PESTICIDES ARE EFFECT ON FRUITS AND VEGETABLES?
 Pesticides degrade the quality of soil and
further the quality of the food and yield.
 Chemical pesticides deplete the
nutritional value of the food and
contaminate it.
 When we eat any food such as apple,
lettuce, potatoes or strawberries, these
pesticides enter our body and may lead to
many health issues.
 While these chemical pesticides are
developed to kill organisms found on the
crop, these are also harmful to other
living things.
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7. Reasons Farmers Use More Pesticides
 Pesticides help farmers to produce more yield with less
land.
 Pesticides assure huge harvests.
 Pesticides help keep food cheap.
 Pesticides help to reduce waterborne and insect-transmitted
disease
 No hardship of hand weeding.
 More produce is limited.
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8. HOW THE ORGANIC FARMING IS MORE EFFECTIVE
The main objective of these organic farming is to produce food with
higher nutritional quality Organic farming produces various products
not only food grains and pulses but they are also producing fruits,
vegetables, spices, and also dairy products
1. "Organic" is the description for products that were not processed
and yielded through chemical-free fertilizers and pesticides.
2. Organic products are usually more expensive as compared to other
ones.
3. it usually takes more effort and finances to maintain organic farms
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9. Visting the fruit ripening community
 Ripening is the process by which fruits attain
their desirable
flavor,quality,color,texture,sweetness and
even appetizing smell
 In the past years they used calcium carbide
to ripe the fruit.Appearence of fruit color is
good but inside it is not ripen.
 Calicum carbide usually contains arsenic and
phosphorous and it is harmful for human
 For ripening the fruit they used ETHYLENE
GAS which is normally produce in plants.
 Most of the fruits and vegetables are stored
in cold storage room under the controlled
atmosphere ,temperature ,and relative
humidity condition
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10. DEVICE TO CHECK HARMFUL CHEMICALS IN FRUITS AND VEGETABLES
 Some of the devices they used to identify the chemicals
in fruits and vegetables.
 They detect the chemical whether it is organic or
inorganic.
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11. Conclusion
Finally, we conclude that the pesticides i.e., chemicals are
used to control the pests and these pesticides contain the
chemicals such as DDT, Aldrin, Chlordane, and Heptachlor.
Finally, these pesticides accumulate in fruits and
vegetables.so, we have to use a limited amount of
chemicals. Follow organic farming like vermicompost,
biofertilizers, and organic manure by these we reduce the
chemicals. Getting the awareness on chemicals and“To avoid
usage of chemicals on fruits and vegetables”.
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12. THANK YOU
-Y.SRAVANI
-R.SOMESWARI
-D.KULLAI SWAMY
-D.SUSMITHA
-A.SANAMUSKAN