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Modern agriculture, pesticides and human health : a case of agricultural labourers in western Maharashtra

Modern agriculture practices have been great promise for economic development of nation. Farm productivity is directly proportional to use of agrochemicals as observed from the first green revolution. Improper and unsafe use of these agrochemicals, especially pesticides is not only harmful to environment but also human health. Pesticides cause 14 …

Modern agriculture, pesticides and human health : a case of agricultural labourers in western Maharashtra

Modern agriculture practices have been great promise for economic development of nation. Farm productivity is directly proportional to use of agrochemicals as observed from the first green revolution. Improper and unsafe use of these agrochemicals, especially pesticides is not only harmful to environment but also human health. Pesticides cause 14 …

Pesticide ban lands Kerala in court

CARDAMOM Planters Marketing Co-operative Society in Kerala has appealed to the high court to suspend the ban on the use of extremely toxic and highly toxic pesticides. They say the ban will affect the cardamom crop this season. To promote organic farming in Kerala, the state agriculture department had ordered …

Pesticides on vegetables, a killer recipe

In Uddanam in Srikakulam district, an estimated 10,000 people have died in the last seven years of just one ailment

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