As a new Pesticides Management Bill was listed for introduction in the Parliament in the Winter Session of 2019, Alliance for Sustainable & Holistic Agriculture submitted its inputs on such a proposed statute, based on the version of the Bill that the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers' Welfare had put out in 2018. ASHA argues that regulation has to reflect the evolution of evidence around the ill effects of pesticides, as well as the post-modern science of pest management.
