Draft Bill faces criticism for making farm workers, dealers responsible for spurious pesticides

Shifting liability from manufacturers to pesticide dealers and farmers in case of any incident was opposed by farmer groups

Pesticide Management Bill 2020 must address important concerns

This is because agriculture in India is largely dependent on chemicals including pesticides and their usage has a huge impact on the health of …

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Court penalises Vision Organics for supplying spurious pesticides in MP

This is first-of-its-kind case in Madhya Pradesh where farmers approached court and won

Pests behind Codex standards

Swearing by them is nothing more than laziness and deception of regulators

Why farmers remain uninformed about pesticides and their use

Manufacturers and state governments have done little to inform farmers about approved uses of pesticides and hazards of using illegal ones

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Nidhi Jamwal and Kushal P S Yadav, prosecuted as 'trespassers'

Punjab bans sale of toxic pesticides; CSE urges similar necessary action by the Centre

Calls for Central government to follow suit in the interest of public health

Muddy and misleading

Pesticide industry attempts to 'educate' people on Endosulfan

FAO, WHO pesticide guidelines seek faster phasing out of toxins

Products with acute toxicity account for the high number of poisoning cases, particularly in the developing countries

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Going overboard

Pesticide industry targets activist

USEPA's ethical faux pas

Ethical poser

US mulls use of data from pesticide tests on humans

Death by pesticides: farmers continue to die as India flouts global norms

The pesticides that have killed 272 farmers in Maharashtra in the last four years are banned in most countries

New study suggests kidney disease may be linked to pesticide exposure

Patients with chronic kidney disease were found to have higher amounts of organochlorine pesticides in their body

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