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Like Kerala’s Kasaragod, neighbouring Dakshina Kannada is bearing the brunt of spraying of endosulfan. While Kasaragod grabbed media spotlight and Kerala banned the pesticide, victims in Karnataka are still struggling for recognition.
Karnataka chief minister B S Yeddyurappa in December announced that his government would consider banning endosulfan. The highly toxic pesticide is banned in over 70 countries. The assurance has come too late and is too little for the hundreds of people in Dakshina Kannada district, like Santosh Menzes, who are …
A survey done by Kerala government in October shows 2,210 people from 11 gram panchayats in Kasaragod are affected by endosulfan. But the muted figure did not go down well with activists fighting for endosulfan victims as the survey was done in three-four days and covered only a part of …
NARAYANA Vokalliga from Belur village in Kasaragod breathed his last on November 20 just as his son was explaining how his father had suffered from exposure to endosulfan for 30 years. The former employee of the Plantation Corporation of Kerala used to spray the toxic pesticide manually in the corporation’s …
Athul Lal AG THIRUVANANATHAPURAM: Agriculture officers in the state would soon don the role of physicians. In a bid to curtail the indiscriminate use of deadly pesticides, the state government is all set to introduce a new concept whereby farmers will require a prescription from agriculture officers to buy pesticides …
Shyam Sundar Vattam In the name of urbanisation, the city is losing a variety of exotic birds. Converting agricultural lands into sites, encroaching upon the natural tanks and using of pesticides by farmers in the surroundings of the city have resulted in the dwindling population of the birds, writes Shyam …
ALAPPUZHA: After making husbands run carrying their wives at the Shankumugham Beach Thiruvananthapuram, Ecorun India is organising another run, this time a 50 km marathon from Alappuzha to Kottayam, demanding a ban on pesticides. Titled Ecorun Ultra Marathon, the event will be from Mullackal in Alappuzha to Thirunnakkara in Kottayam …
Kerala government has been pressing the Centre to impose a country-wide ban on endosulfan. But its own track reocrd hasn't been impressive. The ban on endosulfan in Kerala has proved ineffective and the pesticide is being smuggled in the state. A recent survey shows more children are falling victim, Down …
It is called the mango city. But of late, Muthalamada panchayat in Kerala’s Palakkad district has gained notoriety for excessive use of endosulfan in its mango orchards. Its effect is showing on people living there. When seven-year-old Sharanya was born, her parents Rukmini and Chandran were relieved the baby was …
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Kerala government today renewed its demand for a country wide ban on the use of endosulfan pesticide and wanted the Centre to announce a rehabilitation package to a tune of Rs.100 crores to the persons suffering from the ill-effects of ensulfan in the state. Replying to a calling attention …
THIRUVANATHAPURAM: The International Union of Foodworkers (IUF), a global federation of trade unions, on Thursday urged India to support the ban on endosulfan. Briefing the media after a three-day Asia-Pacific regional meeting of agricultural and plantation trade unions here, IUF regional secretary Ma Wei Pin urged India to support the …
Kasaragod: A 35-year old woman who was suffering from cancer died at her Chalingal residence in the district on Wednesday. Her disease is suspected to have been caused by the spraying of the pesticide Endosulfan in the Plantation Corporation of Kerala's (PCK) cashew estates at Periye here. K. Karthiayani, who …
Kozhikode: The Kerala Catholic Youth Movement (KCYM), Thamarassery diocese, will organise a mass painting and signature campaign in the district on Tuesday to mobilise public support for a speedy ban on Endosulfan. Artists, youth organisation members, priests, nuns and students from various parts of the district will attend the programme, …
Kasaragod: The Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee is in favour of a nationwide ban on the use of Endosulfan pesticide and a representation to this effect has been made to the Union government, its spokesperson M.M. Hassan has said. The recent remarks by Communist Party of India (Marxist) leader Pinarayi Vijayan …
Agricultural scientists have come out with a solution to the menace of snails in various parts of the district for the last somany months. B S Basavaraju and his team has found out a pesticide which helps in dealing with the problem of snails in the district. It was tested …
Kasaragod: Congress leader V.M. Sudheeran has accused the Union Agriculture Ministry of having an unholy nexus with pesticide manufacturing companies and said it is an injustice to the people. He was speaking to presspersons attending a meeting organised by the Anti-Endosulfan Campaign Committee at the Government Guest House here on …
Thiruvananthapuram: The Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) on Monday said it was firm on its stand on banning Endosulfan and would press the Centre to appoint a new head for the proposed expert committee to study the problems related to the use of the pesticide. Addressing a press conference here …
KALPETTA: The former Health Minister K.K. Ramachandran has urged the State government to constitute monitoring committees in the three-tier local bodies to curb the application of pesticides such as Endosulfan. Mr. Ramachandran told mediapersons here on Saturday that though the government had banned the use of Endosulfan in the State, …
