Chapter 1 - SHS (STEM) Research

CHILI PEPPER USED AS HOMEMADE ORGANIC PESTICIDE
CHAPTER 1
THE PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND
Einführung
The chili pepper, as many of us know it is spice of many people around the world,
including the Philippines. There are people who cannot eat anything without the taste of
real hot pepper. Pepper has health sustaining properties as well. They have found to have
rich in vitamin A and C contents.
The goal of this project is to find out if an aqueous extract from chili pepper have
any insecticidal effect on insects especially pests. If this research proves to be successful,
therefore, this could be an alternative solution to this problem and it is possible that it can
be used to fight against other insect pest.
This research will only test the chili pepper of insecticidal properties. Only one
concentration of the solution will be used for testing. The chemical contents of the
extracts will only be tested in the pests.
In homes, people used spray guns and aerosol bombs to kill pests. In small
gardens, handheld applicators are used to spray or dust insecticides.
The garden vegetables pepper, capsicum annuum, of the Solanaceae, or
nightshade family, is grown throughout the world and produces not only green, bell-
shaped, sweet pepper, that are common garden varieties, but also the hot used for, such
spices paprika, chili and cayenne. Most cultivated pepper belongs to one of two major
groups. The Grossum group yields the globose, mild-flavored sweet peppers and that
pimiento or Spanish pepper. The Long gum group produces the “hot chili” and cayenne
peppers, several hundred varieties of which are cultivated in warmer regions. Long gum
peppers are characterized by the extreme pungency. They may be highly irritating when
eaten fresh and in western cuisines they are generally used for the most part in the form
of spice powders made from the dried fruits. Paprika is obtained from a milder variety of
hot pepper. Besides their appearance, there’s another reward from peppers: they’re
delicious. Sweet bell peppers go well with just about anything and are wonderful eaten
right out of the garden, while the hotter varieties spice up many recipes. Some pepper
varieties add color as well as flavor.
The insects have proved to be the most successful arthropods. Arthropods are
invertebrate animals such as insects, and crustaceans. Insects play a very important role
in the web life, in every environment. They have no internal skeleton but they are
covered with an external shell. Some insects are harmful for the plants.
The importance of this pesticide is that, it can keep us safe and away from
inhaling the chemicals coming from the other pesticides those we usually buy in the
supermarkets.
Background of the Study
Most of us worry about the pests and insects. Many people, unemployed or even
employed ones cannot afford these expensive products. Some people are worried about
the side effects that can be found in the pesticides usually bought from the market
because of the chemicals that might be in the commercial brands they use. These
common ingredients can affect our health, mostly children in the house.
Pesticide products can be harmless if we use natural ingredients but if we mixed it
into another chemical, it can be harmful and contain the pyrethoids cyfluthrin,
transfluthrin, prallethrin and the carbonate propoxur and organophosphorus chlorpyrifos,
as active ingredients. These kinds of ingredients can irritate our skin, and can affect our
lungs from inhaling chemicals. Many chemical insecticides can prove unsafe for the
environment. Sometimes, it can destroy plants because of the extreme chemical used that
can make fruits and vegetables unsafe for consumptions.
This research is chemical-free; it can also decrease the amount of pests. This
research aims to produce natural insecticide from organic plants such as pepper, to find
out if an aqueous extract from chili pepper have any insecticidal effect on insects
especially. If this research proves to be successful there can now alternative solution to
this problem and it is possible that it can be used to fight against the other insect pest.
Significance of the Study
The information gathered from this research can benefit people who needed a
natural insecticide that contains harmless ingredients that does not require a great amount
of money. This research produces a substance that can be used as homemade organic
insecticides for pests.
This natural pesticide is chemical free unlike the other insecticides that contains
chemical which can be harmful when you smell. This research can help other or family
that having pest problems.
This study will benefit the following:
1. Plants containing pests.
2. Gardener who experienced this kind of problem.
3. Contaminated environment because of the chemicals from the other
pesticides.
Statement of the Problem
1. How effective is the chili pepper to decrease the amount of pests?
2. What is the essential of this product?
3. How this product does differ from the other pesticides?
4. How does the odor of this product affects the effectiveness to reduce the
number of pests?
5. What are the effects of this product to human health?
Scope and Delimitation
The main focus of this research was the effectiveness of Chili Pepper used as
Homemade Organic Pesticide. This pesticide will be using natural ingredients to drive
away the pests or will kill them.

To extract the chili pepper, the vegetable should be chopped prior to use. Mix it
together with the molasses in a container. Keep it in a warm spot within 2 weeks and wait
until it becomes fermented. After 2 weeks, filter the fermented chili pepper to get the
juice using strainer. Then, filter it again with a use of clean cloth to make sure that there
is no solid material left. The liquid portion is now the pesticide. Put it in a spray bottle
and use it for plants to remove pests.

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CHILI PEPPER USED AS HOMEMADE ORGANIC PESTICIDE

THE PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND

rich in vitamin A and C contents.

be used to fight against other insect pest.

extracts will only be tested in the pests.

gardens, handheld applicators are used to spray or dust insecticides.

The garden vegetables pepper, capsicum annuum, of the Solanaceae, or

varieties add color as well as flavor.

Pesticide products can be harmless if we use natural ingredients but if we mixed it

transfluthrin, prallethrin and the carbonate propoxur and organophosphorus chlorpyrifos,

can make fruits and vegetables unsafe for consumptions.

Significance of the Study

insecticides for pests.

that having pest problems.

This study will benefit the following:

1. Plants containing pests.

2. Gardener who experienced this kind of problem.

3. Contaminated environment because of the chemicals from the other

Statement of the Problem

1. How effective is the chili pepper to decrease the amount of pests?

2. What is the essential of this product?

3. How this product does differ from the other pesticides?

5. What are the effects of this product to human health?

Scope and Delimitation

away the pests or will kill them.

and use it for plants to remove pests.

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