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 Federal Shariat Court (FSC) has dismissed several petitions by pesticide sellers, and has observed that to punish sellers of adulterated pesticides is not un-Islamic. The court observed the people who possessed adulterated pesticides were liable to punishment regardless of where they got the pesticides from. Abdul Latif, a pesticide …
Gargi Parsai NEW DELHI: Indian farmers stand to lose crops worth over Rs. 25,000 crore annually due to use of sub-standard pesticides and insecticides, a farmers
Monocrotophos is a highly hazardous organophosphate insecticide that is widely used and easily available in India. Monocrotophos has been most frequently associated with both accidental and intentional fatal pesticide poisonings. The report therefore focuses on presenting data on the current practices and health consequences of monocrotophos in particular. The Food …
McDonald's Corp, the largest purchaser of potatoes in the United States, has agreed to take preliminary steps to reduce pesticide use in its domestic potato supply, shareholder groups said on Tuesday. Following the agreement, the Bard College Endowment, Newground Social Investment and the AFL-CIO Reserve Fund withdrew a shareholder proposal …
Genetic engineering has been promoted as an important means for dramatically improving the yields of staple food crops, but there is little evidence to support such a claim. In Failure to Yield, the Union of Concerned Scientists provides the most comprehensive evaluation to date of more than two decades of …
This report is the sixth `State of the Arctic environment report' that has been prepared by AMAP in accordance with its mandate. It presents the results of work conducted during AMAP's third phase (2002-2008) in relation to three priority areas persistent organic pollutants, human health, and radioactivity. This report is …
The fruit production has decreased which may be due to weather factors or unrestricted imports is not clear. However, in the case of fruits lack of suitable commercial varieties with market preference has been a perennial problem. In both vegetable and fruits, unimproved varieties and obsolete production technologies lead to …
Things seem to have come a full circle for a majority of Americans agriculturists who are going organic in a big way giving the go-by to conventional farming. Interestingly, this development has taken place at the global level when the Punjab Farmers Commission report has ruled out such farming on …
State Minister for Environment and Forest Mustafizur Rahman said the government is going to develop a strategy soon for sustainable waste management to keep the environment toxic-free.
MONOCROTOPHOS, A common pesticide, is also popular among some Indian farmers for a grimmer purpose: acutely toxic for humans, yet dirt-cheap, it is the instrument most farmers have chosen to end their lives with. A dubious claim to fame for the pesticide industry, even as its effectiveness in pest eradication …
Giridih, March 16: The effect of nanotechnology on agriculture could generate some interesting results, feel scientists at the Indian Statistical Institute, Giridih centre. Chemical fertilisers and pesticides are harmful to the ecology. Thus, the Union ministry of science and technology has funded a research development programme of agro-enterotoxic nano-particles and …
March 10: Pesticides prohibited by the Central Insecticides Board and Registration Committee are widely used by farmers in the state. Alarmingly enough, officials who are supposed to prevent their use are actually recommending them to farmers. The CIB&RC; has issued a list of pesticides which are banned including chlordane and …
TAMLUK, March. 3: Potato production in East Midnapore is expected to decrease by 30 per cent this year, compared to previous years due to an outbreak of late blight. With the district agriculture department doing little to arrest the spread of the disease, farmers feel it would be almost impossible …
Mixtures of organophosphate and carbamate pesticides are commonly detected in freshwater habitats that support threatened and endangered species of Pacific salmon (Oncorhynchus sp.) . These pesticides inhibit the activity of acetylcholinesterase (AChE) and thus have potential to interfere with behaviors that may be essential for salmon survival. Although the effects …
The Pesticides Act 1999 controls the use of pesticides in New South Wales. The Act aims to reduce the risks to human health, the environment, property, industry and trade from the use of pesticides. The Pesticides Regulation 1995 facilitates this by setting out requirements for pesticide record-keeping, training and the …
Chronic health effects are increasing in the world such as cancers, hormonal, reproductive, nervous, or immune diseases, even in young people. During regulatory toxicological subchronic tests to prevent these on mammalian health, prior commercialization of chemicals, including pesticides and drugs, or GMOs, some statistically significant findings may be revealed. This …
This base working paper on the strategy and action plan for ensuring safety of milk and milk products covers three goals: Assessment of food legislation at national level
