Down To Earth, Vibha Varshney, 13 Jul 2018
The objective is to curb the illegal use of herbicide-tolerant BT cotton
Down To Earth, Vibha Varshney, 13 Jul 2018
The objective is to curb the illegal use of herbicide-tolerant BT cotton
The Wire, Leah Utyasheva and Michael Eddleston, 13 Jun 2018
Pesticide poisoning is the leading method of suicide among both men and women in the country. It is also the method that is easiest to prevent – by banning and removing highly hazardous ones from agricultural practice through legislation.
Hindustan Times, 22 Mar 2018
The deaths were reported between financial years 2013-14 and 2017-18
Chemistry World, 15 Feb 2018
The northern Indian state of Punjab has moved to ban 20 pesticides. This comes as the nation as a whole is attempting to crackdown on pesticides that are most harmful to human health and the environment. The pesticides banned include phosphamidon, endosulfan, triazophos, alachlor and monochrotophos. Many of these chemicals are banned in a number of countries but are still in use in many parts of India. The Stockholm Convention banned endosulfan in more than 120 countries in 2011, including India.
New Delhi: The deaths of farmers in Maharashtra, Odisha and now in Tamil Nadu allegedly due to pesticide poisoning have yet again brought into focus the regulatory regime for agro-chemicals. Pesticides and agro-chemicals are governed by the Insecticides Act, 1968, and Insecticides Rules, 1971, which regulate import, registration, manufacture, sale, transport, distribution and use of insecticides (pesticides).
பெரம்பலூர் மாவட்டத்தில் பருத்தி வயலுக்குப் பூச்சிக்கொல்லி மருந்து அடித்த மூன்று விவசாயிகள் இறந்திருக்கிறார்கள் இருபதுக்கும் மேற்பட்டோர் மருத்துவமனையில் அனுமதித்திருக்கும் சம்பவம் தமிழகத்தையே உலுக்கியிருக்கிறது.
CHENNAI: At least six deaths and the hospitalisation of a few hundred more in Tamil Nadu’s cotton belt - Perambalur, Ariyalur and Salem - are a result of pesticide poisoning, alleged members of a fact-finding committee of activists that recently visited the affected farming families
Chennai: Acording to the members, around 200-300 persons have been hospitalised in the past two months after exposure to deadly pesticides. Six deaths have occurred in three districts of Tamil Nadu. “After instances of deaths and large scale hospitalisations due to pesticide exposure in Vidarbha and later in Telangana, the menace is now surfacing in TN,” points K Balakrishnan of Swaraj Abhiyan.
A 31-year-old farmer from Ariyalur district allegedly died last month due to exposure to pesticides. There have been five such deaths in the last two months in Perambalur and Ariyalur districts and activists and farmers are demanding a ban on pesticides by the Central government.