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 …
The government today dispatched teams of the Horticulture Department to assess the widespread damage caused by the intense fury of the hailstorm over the past two days in the entire apple belt of Shimla and parts of Kinnaur with the estimated damage to the apple crop already touching Rs 248 …
Site identified for campus had been part of a cashew estate. The university is now functioning in rented building. Work on medical research wings to go on as scheduled KASARAGOD: The Central University of Kerala will seek the State government's intervention to speed up soil and water tests to ascertain …
Aiming to promote organic farming, the government has partially relaxed restrictions on exports of sugar, pulses and edible oils, produced without using chemical fertiliser and pesticides. The Directorate General of Foreign Trade (DGFT) has allowed exports of organic cooking oil, sugar and pulses upto 10,000 tonnes each per annum.
Ban on popular but much-maligned insecticide endosulfan in Kerala and Karnataka due to its alleged health hazards is being seen by some experts as not just unreasonable and unscientific but also as one that could lead farmers to use potentially more dangerous and costlier insecticides, particularly in the cotton belt.
District-level squad formed to implement ban strictly. KATTAPPANA: The district administration will intensify checking on the border routes and plantation areas to counter the use of endosulfan which is reportedly being brought from Tamil Nadu in bottles with fake labels. The raids in the plantation segments would continue and cases …
It is the improper mode of application, violating the law and regulations, that is responsible for the apparent adverse toxic effects of endosulfan. People marking their protest against endosulfan on a 'signature tree' in Kasaragod ahead of the Conference of the Parties to the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants …
New Delhi THE rising sale of spurious pesticides in the country is resulting in crop damage, top agricultural scientists said on Wednesday. S Ayyappan, director general, Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), said around 40% of pesticides used in the country is spurious.
The widespread and increasingly intensive use of glyphosate in association with the use of GM (genetically modified) crops poses further risks to the environment and human health. This report, produced by Greenpeace together with GM Freeze, shows why rigorous assessment of the safety of glyphosate to plant, humans and animals …
A growing body of evidence suggests pesticides may play a role in Parkinson’s disease (PD) in humans. Selfreported PD has been associated with lifetime use of pesticides, and animal studies have suggested that the pesticides paraquat and rotenone can cause oxidative stress and mitochondrial dysfunction, respectively—posited mechanisms of action in …
Chandy says victims found it difficult to seek medical aid outside Kasaragod THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Chief Minister Oommen Chandy said here on Thursday that a super-specialty hospital would be set up in Kasaragod for treating people suffering from the ill effects of endosulfan. Addressing a meeting of the Collectors here, the Chief …
Namakkal: A small-scale manufacturer of endosulfan at Pattanam, near Rasipuram, has been asked to stop production till further directions were received from the Supreme Court, sources from the Agriculture Department has said. The instruction was given to the manufacturer following an eight-week ban by the Supreme Court, an official said. …
Ten-member Central team holds talks with doctors KASARAGOD: Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) Director-General Viswa Mohan Katoch has said that steps will be initiated to mitigate the plight of endosulfan victims and their families. The authorities would take steps within two months to address the health hazards faced by …
Namakkal: General Secretary of the All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS) K. Varadharajan said that the Tamil Nadu Vivasayegal Sangam (TNVS) that is affiliated to the AIKS and the Tamil Nadu Science Forum would jointly conduct an inclusive field study on the ill effects of endosulfan on farmers, crops, soil, consumers …
Minister says government committed to organic farming Decontamination of soil to be part of package Decision on farmers' pension scheme to be taken THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Agriculture Minister K.P. Mohanan said here on Monday that the government was committed to carrying forward the organic farming policy brought in by the previous government. …
VELLORE: The Organic Farming Organisation, Vellore, has appealed to Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa to ban the use of endosulfan, a harmful pesticide, in Tamil Nadu. In a memorandum to the Chief Minister, president of the organisation G.S. Purushothaman said the pesticide had been banned in more than 80 countries …
Around 51 agricultural foods are contaminated with pesticide residues and of these, 20 per cent has pesticide residues more than the maximum residue limit in India. India produces 85,000 tonnes of pesticides every year. The pesticide endosulfan was recently banned by the government, but many other chemical pesticides continue to …
Bosco Acope and his family tend their farm in Atek, Uganda, where the government's use of DDT has threatened their livelihood. Growing up as a child here along the muggy, isolated plains of northern Uganda, life was not easy. His parents were poor. He did not attend secondary school. Many …
Next of kin of deceased victims to get Rs.1 lakh Oommen Chandy to visit Kasaragod again Comprehensive relief package for living victims THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Cabinet on Wednesday decided to enhance the assistance to the next of kin of deceased victims of endosulfan to Rs.1 lakh. Chief Minister Oommen Chandy told …
