October 23, 2018 10:16 PM

Down To Earth, 22 Oct 2018

The food safety authority has asked officials to, every 15 days, find out if the “cancer causing” herbicide is present in the pulses imported

October 21, 2018 10:19 PM

India Spend, 20 Oct 2018

Chandrapur and Yavatmal (Maharashtra): Rekha Madavi, 45, did not know the name of the pesticide her husband, Rushi, 55, had been spraying on their cotton crop. All their pesticide containers had been seized by the police for examination

October 20, 2018 10:14 PM

The Pioneer, 19 Oct 2018

Food regulator asks people not to eat masoor, moong dal as they are induced with hazardous herbicide Glyphosate

October 19, 2018 10:17 PM

Business Line, 17 Oct 2018

PANAP study finds unauthorised use of toxic chemicals is rampant in India. More than half of the 53 pesticides commonly used in Indian agriculture are highly hazardous, and two-thirds of those involved in manual spraying do not wear any protective equipment, which exposes them to toxic chemicals, a report released on Wednesday said.

October 05, 2018 10:11 PM

The Caravan, 4 Oct 2018

On 10 August this year, a California jury ruled that Roundup, the world’s most widely used herbicide, caused the terminal cancer of Dewayne Johnson, who was formerly a groundskeeper of a school near San Francisco. The jury directed Monsanto, the agricultural biotechnology corporation that owns Roundup, to pay Johnson $289 million—Rs 2116 crore—in punitive and compensatory damages. In his court testimony, Johnson said he worked with the herbicide 20–30 times a year and was soaked with the product on at least two occasions. In 2014, he was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, a rare type of cancer.

September 25, 2018 10:08 PM

BBC, 24 Sep 2018

In 2016, Sikkim, a small state in India’s northeast, was declared the country's first fully organic state. Since then, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government has been trying to promote chemical-free farming across the country.

It’s been nearly half a century since the "Green Revolution" introduced modern farming techniques that included the use of pesticides, to make India a self-sufficient food producer.

September 25, 2018 10:06 PM

The Guardian, 24 Sep 2018

Glyphosate – the most used pesticide ever – damages the good bacteria in honeybee guts, making them more prone to deadly infections

September 25, 2018 10:04 PM

Azim Premji University, Himanshu Upadhyaya

In their new song, Vinay and Charul are seen performing live, with the very basic Dafli and Ghunghru a song in Gujarati that celebrates what the proponent of Organic Farming – Sir Albert Howard – had referred as humus content. Painting a moving word picture of farmland, they sing in a very persuasive tone a refrain: Maare Zer Nathi Aapvu (I refuse to poision my farm).

September 18, 2018 09:51 PM

Business Standard, 17 Sep 2018

The Supreme Court on Monday sought a response from Centre on a plea for a ban on 85 pesticides since these were banned in other countries but were allowed in India, posing a serious health hazards to farmers. A bench of Justice Arun Misra and Justice Vineet Saran issued notice to the Centre and others on a plea by one Kavita Kuruganti who said that the continued use of "deadly pesticides" is a major threat to the right to life of farm workers and farmers. Advocate Prashant Bhushan, appearing for the petitioner, argued for empowering the states to take decisions at their own level for prohibition and restriction related to pesticides.

September 03, 2018 09:46 PM

The Wire, Leah Utyasheva and Michael Eddleston, 2 Sep 2018

Studies from Sri Lanka have shown that banning dangerous pesticides from agricultural use reduces their availability for suicide attempts, resulting in a major fall in the overall suicide rate.

August 25, 2018 09:49 PM

Down To Earth, 24 Aug 2018

The German drugmaker now faces 8,000 cases in the US against its weedkiller

August 19, 2018 09:41 PM

Times of India, Nagpur, 18 Aug 2018

Maharashtra attempts to ban Glyphosate

August 16, 2018 09:39 PM

Scroll, Mridula Chari, 15 Aug 2018

It has not banned monocrotophos and mancozeb, both implicated in the deaths of dozens of cotton farmers in Central India last year, or even DDT.

August 09, 2018 09:21 PM

New Delhi, 8 Aug 2018

Gazette Notification signals immediate ban on registration, import, manufacture, formulation, transport, and sale of 11 pesticides (Benomyl, Carbaryl, Diazinon, Fenarimol, Fenthion, Linuron, MEMC, Methyl Parathion, Sodium Cyanide, Thiometon, and Tridemorph), restricts the use of 1 pesticide to wheat (Trifluralin), and bans the import, manufacture and formulation of a further 6 pesticides (Alachlor, Dichlorvos, Phorate, Phosphamidon, Triazophos, and Trichlorfon) with effect from the 1st January, 2019 with these 6 pesticides' use to be completely banned as of 31st December, 2020.

August 08, 2018 08:02 PM

Down To Earth, 7 Aug 2018

The magazine had reported on how UPL's chemical and pesticide units were worsening pollution scenario in Vapi