The Standing Committee on Chemicals and Fertilizers presented its report on ‘Insecticides and Pesticides – Promotion and Development including Safe Usage – Licensing Regime for Insecticides’ on December 19, 2023. Pesticides are broadly of four types: insecticides, fungicides, herbicides, and bio-pesticides. Herbicides kill/control the growth of weeds, and have the …
Punjab may be seen as the food bowl of the country, but the state is paying a heavy price for it. The harmful effects of the indiscriminate, unchecked use of carcinogenic pesticides can already be seen with an alarming increase in the number of cancer-related deaths and other debilitating diseases. …
The Centre for Environmental Justice (CEJ), yesterday, submitted to the Court of Appeal, a letter written recently by the Registrar of Pesticides, to Provincial Directors of Agriculture, regarding the release of pesticides containing Arsenic. The petitioner, CEJ, through its counsel, Ravindranath Dabare, informed the Court, that the Registrar of Pesticides …
Opponents of Monsanto's new genetically modified sweet corn are petitioning national food retailers and processors to ban the biotech corn, which is not labeled as being genetically altered from conventional corn. A coalition of health, food safety and environmental organizations said they have collected more than 264,000 petition signatures from …
Cell recast with Agriculture Minister as its chairman The United Democratic Front (UDF) government has come under criticism for excluding various agencies and organisations that had launched a relentless and sustained campaign against endosulfan in the district from the reconstituted Endosulfan Victims Relief and Remediation Cell. The cell coordinates and …
Genetic engineering has failed to increase the yield of any food crop but has vastly increased the use of chemicals and the growth of “superweeds,” according to a report by 20 Indian, southeast Asian, African and Latin American food and conservation groups representing millions of people. The so-called miracle crops, …
The Persistent Organic Pollutants Review Committee of the Stockholm Convention has decided to invite the Food and Agriculture Organisation to undertake studies on integrated pest management alternatives to endosulfan. The decision was taken as a follow up to the decision of the Conference of Parties to the Convention in April …
The agriculture ministry will ask the Indian arm of Swiss agrochemical giant Syngenta to stop import and marketing of its flagship insecticide Emamectin Benzoate in India soon. The ministry’s decision, once notified, will put curtains down on a four-year old tussle the company had been waging against the ministry after …
Prices increase six times this kharif forcing farmers to spend an additional Rs. 1,000 crore Increase in the prices of all fertilizers except urea six times during the current kharif season has burdened the farming community in the State by about Rs. 1,000 crore additionally. It is likely to add …
They are for educators and institutions that would like to campaign for the cause India is the global host of the International Year of Forests, declared by the United Nations, and there is lot that we could do to protect our forests and animals. This is what the volunteers of …
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Dursban 10G, Nurella-D and Pride of Dow AgroSciences & Emamectin Benzoate imported by Syngenta banned following cos’ unethical practices The Agriculture Ministry has cancelled the registration of pesticides Dursban 10G, Nurella-D and Pride, manufactured by Dow AgroSciences India, and Emamectin Benzoate, imported by Syngenta India, over ‘unethical practices’. The order …
Faced with the potential use of a dangerous pesticide methyl iodide to spray crops in their backyards, a group of Californian teenagers decided to stand up to the might of industrial agribusiness. Rosie Spinks reports It's a short walk - about five or six steps - from the neat and …
New Delhi The Supreme Court has permitted exports of 1,090 mt of unsold stock of endosulfan lying with Indian companies, under strict supervision of the customs department and environment ministry. A Bench headed by Chief Justice S H Kapadia, while retaining its earlier order banning the use and production of …
The Supreme Court on Friday permitted the export of nearly 1100 tonnes of endosulfan but retained the ban on manufacture, sale and use of the controversial pesticide. The exports are subject to conditions pertaining to safety. These include the prevention of poisoning and environmental pollution. A three judge Bench headed …
Genetic engineering has failed to increase the yield of any food crop but has vastly increased the use of chemicals and the growth of "superweeds". The GMO Emperor has no clothes empowers citizens to create a GMO-free world, rich in biodiversity and healthy food. It also advances alternatives that are …
Rehabilitation centres for Endosulfan affected victims are in need of experienced and skilled physiotherapists and aesthetic- prosthetic engineers and modern instruments. Localites should be trained as physiotherapists at least to provide minimum treatment for differently abled people, said Disability Commissioner K V Rajanna. Speaking to media persons after holding an …
Santosh Jadhav, 35, of Mothegaon village in Resode taluka would always spray pesticides thrice in his soyabean fields. But this time Jadhav changed the decades-old schedule — he has cut it down to just one spray — following the advice of experts. And he isn’t regretting taking the risk. “With …
Five people died in Umerkot and four in different parts of Nawabshah district on Thursday because of gastroenteritis, malaria and waterborne disease. Mir Muhammad Rind, 55, of Sufi Nawaz village died after consuming contaminated water from Nabisar canal. The water carries remains of carcasses of cattle, pesticides and fertilisers and …
On September 16, German chemical giant Bayer CropScience announced it would withdraw all the toxic pesticides from the markets. The phasing out would be completed by the end of 2012. "With this commitment we fulfil our promise to end the production and marketing of class I pesticides," said Sandra E …
'The industry has no experience of disposing pesticides and the Ministry of Environment and Forest have not provided any definite procedure for the purpose'- This was the reply of the Supreme Court appointed joint committee on endosulfan. The committee, jointly headed by the director general of Indian Council of Medical …
