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 …
After having made a feature film in Malyalam, K P Sasi is back to making documentaries. This time around he is targeting pesticides. Says Sasi, "I have been researching the subject for some time now and would like to share what I have learnt." According to Sasi, his main focus …
The Switzerland-based coalitim group, the Blumen-Kampag (Flower Campaign) which campaigns against pesticide usad worldwide has notched xipU-Actory. it-has forced Ciba-Geigy, the SVA4 company and AgrEvo, the Gertmin company to withdraw their mal controversial pesticides from the Colombian flower industry. Cibj Geigy will no longer sell phos- pharaidon, dichlorvos and di …
ALL the way up at the North Pole, Arctic lakes are teeming with severe cases of pesticide contaminated fish. Dangerous levels of the pesticide toxaphene in the trout and turbot stock in Lake Laberge, in Yukon, Canada, have been reported by a team of Canadian researchers investigating the causes of …
Contaminant levels of pocs have been established in various foods in countries such as India, Thailand and Vietnam. Concentrations of a number of pocs exceed the recommended maximum residue limits set by the World Health Organisation (who) and Food and Agricultural Organisation (fao) for various food items in India. Overall …
Asian farmers are learning a new lesson: killing insects that eat up the leaves in their paddy fields is a futile opearation, because the pests make little difference to the rice yield. "You can remove half a plant's leaves and it will make the same amount of rice," explains Kong …
What is the main area of work of the International Joint Commission (IJC) and the purpose behind its creation? The International Joint Commission was created by a treaty between the United States and Canada, who agreed that neither country would pollute the waters on its own side of the lipe, …
ACKNOWLEDGED by farmers since time immemorial, the significance of spiders in pest management of crops is all the more being recognised now in view of the ill-effects of chemical pesticides. Following this trend, entomologists at the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) in the Philippines have recently recorded 7 species of …
Brazilian farmers frequently using pesticides in their farm operations, unknowingly make their children susceptible to kidney cancer. Recently, researchers established that 18 per cent of Wilms' turnours - which affect kidneys - among Brazilian children, are due to exposure of their parents to pesticides (American Journal ofEpidemiolop@ Vol 141). Colin …
A REPORT presented in mid-July by the Institute for Environment and Health (mii), Leicester, United Kingdom, has hit hard especially those living in the northern hemisphere. It makes a startling statement that 60,000 human-made chemicals are likely to be causing not only impotency among men and wildlife, but might actually …
A study carried out by scientists of the Andhra Pradesh Agricultural University says a high rate of pesticide residue in the milk of lactating mothers in the Krishna delta region of the state is exposing infants to leihal food contamination. Researchers have found that the percentage of pesticide residue in …
The legend goes that drops of nectar being carried to heaven fell on earth and out grew garlic plants. Though the role of garlic in curing various human ailments has long been established, recently its spray has been found to ward off infestation of ergot-causing fungus Claviceps sorghi in cereal …
NOT many of us are aware that the controversial pesticide DDT (dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane), played an important role in the Second World War, when this 'wonder pesticide' was used to kill the lice responsible for the spread of typhoid among the Allied forces. It was in the '60s that the world came …
GENETICALLY engineered potatoes that produce their own insecticide may soon hit supermarkets in the us. The special bug killing spud has been produced by incorporating a gene from a bacterium called Bacillus thuringiensis that-produces a pesticide called Bt, into the potato plant. Incorporating the gene for Bt into a potato …
Colombia's workers in the flower industry -- the 2nd largest in the world -- are organising themselves to fight against the excessive use of pesticides, 20 per cent of which are banned in the US and Europe. Christian Aid, a voluntary organisation, has launched a campaign for the rights of …
The Women's Environmental Network had launched a campaign in spring 1993 against miserable working conditions and the use of pesticides in cocoa production. The campaign, aimed at ameliorating the health of cocoa farm workers and stopping pesticide poisoning in chocolates, scored a success when the UK government agreed to implement …
Move over mosquito coils, repellent mats and creams. A green way of hacking the pesky biters, by way of bio-degradable insecticides, will soon make the nights more peaceful. The brainchild of the National Malaria Eradication Programme (NMEP), bio-degradable insecticides -- melathone and synthetic phyrathoride -- will be used from 1997 …
That eponymous Indian herbal cure-it-all, the neem, could provide the world with thrice its requirement of pesticides. But over 100 Indian entrepreneurs who attended a day-long workshop on neem plantations organised in Bombay by the Neem Foundation in the 1st week of May found the industry-research interface paralysed by static, …
The Pesticide Action Network-Asia and the Pacific Regional Centre (PANAP) has launched a campaign against 2 toxic pesticides, enclosulf an and triphenyltin, manufactured primarily by the German multinational, Hoechst AG. PAN-AP is calling upon governments the world over to ban the manufacture and sale of these deadly chemicals and has …
BENZENE hexachloride and malathion showed up in vegetables from the Azadpur wholesale vegetable market, prompting the ministry of agriculture to order the phasing out of chemical pesticides in vegetable farming. The levels were found to be below the human tolerance level, but the question that haunted the ministry was: why …
THE MEF has launched a probe into the granting of environmental clearance to United Phosphorus, an agrochemical company, to import a used chlor-alkali plant. The factory will manufacture chlorine-based pesticides in the chemical industry belt of Vapi in Gujarat. The company imported the plant from Norske Skogindustrier, Norway's largest pulp …
