Pesticide Management Bill 2020: What could have made it better

The bill was introduced after much delay

64% of world’s arable land at risk of pesticide pollution: Study

Asia home to largest land areas at high risk of pesticide pollution

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

Simply put: Why pesticide

Yavatmal farmers fight losing battle against pesticide poisoning; pin hopes on Swiss court hearing

There has been an inordinate delay in enacting the Pesticides Management Bill to replace the Insecticides Act of 1968

No Entry

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

Going overboard

Pesticide industry targets activist

USEPA's ethical faux pas

Ethical poser

US mulls use of data from pesticide tests on humans

Simply Put: The war we do not see

Big fish seek shield

Poison check

CHEMICALS ALERT

Despite protests, a tainted company tries to set up a fungicide unit

In Short

Pesticide trap

India extensively uses pesticides banned globally, show RTI responses  

Ban on pesticides: Plea in Supreme Court alleges restriction on reduced number of chemicals to protect companies

Next hearing on April 28; SC seeks reasons for the decision from Centre

No-use pact

Safety billing

Pesticide consumption a leading cause of suicides worldwide: Report

Up to 168,000 people kill themselves by ingesting pesticides annually, it said

Fizzically unfit

Fixing of norms for pesticides in soft drinks delayed further

Endosulfan: India in denial

Agriculture minister claims several states had asked him not to ban the pesticide

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