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 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 Guidelines on Alternatives to Highly Hazardous Pesticides (HHPs) is designed to: (a) Identify the roles of the different stakeholders in the process of replacing HHPs and suggest how they can support one another in order to maintain agricultural productivity while protecting health and the environment; (b) Provide information and …
Order of the Supreme Court in the matter of Vanashakti & Other Vs Union of India & Others dated 27/03/2023. The Supreme Court directed the Union Government to place on record the final report of the Dr S K Khurana sub committee and the report dated September 6, 2022 of …
The European Union is one of the world’s biggest markets for pesticides with almost a quarter of all pesticides sold in the EU. It is also the top exporting region, increasingly selling to countries of the Global South to which pesticides that are banned in the EU can still be …
UNICEF Innocenti's Report Card 17 explores how 43 OECD/EU countries are faring in providing healthy environments for children. Beyond children’s immediate environments, over-consumption in some of the world’s richest countries is destroying children’s environments globally. This threatens both children worldwide and future generations. To provide all children with safe and …
New report reveals serious problems of pesticide usage in India and points to poor regulation of hazardous agrochemicals. The current use pattern is implicated in widespread unauthorised uses of chlorpyrifos, fipronil, atrazine and paraquat in India, posing threat to food safety and environmental contamination. A new report titled ‘State Of …
Amid concerns expressed by the industry bodies, a parliamentary panel said the proposed penalty and jail term for violation of the Pesticide Management Bill, 2020, are "essential" to check the sale of fake and spurious pesticides in the country. The Bill, which was vetted by the Parliament Standing Committee on …
African countries have diversified both their exports and trade partners over the last decade, African agricultural trade still suffers from structural problems as well as exogenous shocks. Against this backdrop, the 2021 Africa Agriculture Trade Monitor (AATM) analyzes continental and regional trends in African agricultural trade flows and policies. The …
The Secretariats of the Basel, Rotterdam, and Stockholm (BRS) Conventions and the Minamata Convention on Mercury published a study inspired by the ongoing discussions on a post-2020 global biodiversity framework. The report highlights interlinkages between the work of the global chemicals and waste conventions and conventions related to biodiversity, with …
This is an addendum to the WHO publication “The Public Health Impact of Chemicals: Knowns and Unknowns” (WHO, 2016). Data presented in this update refer to the year 2019 while the initial publication presented data for 2012 (WHO, 2016) and the first data update presented data for 2016 (WHO, 2018)
The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) on April 9, 2021 has issued Draft Guidance Document & Standard operating procedures for fixation of maximum residue limits (MRLs) of pesticides in food commodities. The guidance for establishing MRLs on agricultural and food commodities which is meant for the use …
The United Nations Environment Assembly in 2017 through Resolution 3/4 requested the Executive Director to present a report on the environmental and health impacts of pesticides and fertilizers and ways of minimizing them, given the lack of data in that regard, in collaboration with the World Health Organization, the Food …
A study released by Pesticide Action Network Asia Pacific (PANAP), Society for Rural Education and Development (SRED), and PAN India reveals the use of Highly Hazardous Pesticides (HHPs) in floriculture farms in Tamil Nadu, affecting Dalit children who work in these farms. The study, entitled Toxic Blooms: Impacts of Pesticides …
Central Water Commission has been playing a major role in the water quality monitoring of river water since year 1963 and at present, is observing water quality at 658 key locations (625 on HO network and 33 WQSS) covering major river basins of India. As per Guidelines of Water Quality …
This report is on the review of 66 pesticides under the Chairmanship of Dr. Anupam Varma. The main parameters emphasized by the Committee to review the products were uses approved under the Insecticides Act, 1968. Six pesticides to be phased out by 2020. Ban of use of Fenitrothion in agriculture …
This report is on the review of 66 pesticides under the Chairmanship of Dr. Anupam Varma. The main parameters emphasized by the Committee to review the products were uses approved under the Insecticides Act, 1968. Six pesticides to be phased out by 2020. Ban of use of Fenitrothion in agriculture …
This report is on the review of 66 pesticides under the Chairmanship of Dr. Anupam Varma. The main parameters emphasized by the Committee to review the products were uses approved under the Insecticides Act, 1968. Six pesticides to be phased out by 2020. Ban of use of Fenitrothion in agriculture …
This report is on the review of 66 pesticides under the Chairmanship of Dr. Anupam Varma. The main parameters emphasized by the Committee to review the products were uses approved under the Insecticides Act, 1968. Six pesticides to be phased out by 2020. Ban of use of Fenitrothion in agriculture …
This report is on the review of 66 pesticides under the Chairmanship of Dr. Anupam Varma. The main parameters emphasized by the Committee to review the products were uses approved under the Insecticides Act, 1968.
In its "The Insecticides (Second Amendment) Draft Rules, 2020" draft order, the Agriculture Ministry points out that these are products that are likely to involve risk to humans and animals and has called for suggestions before a final order is passed. Provided that all persons with valid certificates of registration …
