Poison on the plate

Study links toxins in food products to cancer and other diseases in children

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Letters

Phthalates could contribute to obesity, insulin resistance

Fungi fight malaria

Especially helpful against mosquitoes resistant to pesticides

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Promoting millets: the wheel need not be reinvented

New policy could be detrimental to millet farming

Nothing is good enough

Even pesticides based on herbal extracts can affect brain functioning

Supreme Court allows export of unused endosulfan

Calls for strict monitoring while packaging

SC seeks details on safe export of endosulfan

Interim ban on the pesticide to continue

A pill a day

Keeps death away

Budget pitches for agriculture

No incentives for organic fertilizers and sustainable farming  

World Rainforest Day: Goliath frogs need urgent conservation measures

Goliath frog population is estimated to have halved in the last 15 years

Punjab's spiritual farming

Supreme Court asks Centre to submit endosulfan disposal plan

Sets deadline of July 23

Haryana hurdle: Paddy procurement season on, but farmers have no buyers

Crop moisture to logistics, government officials rejecting paddy, claimed farmers 

No pesticides no debts

Pesticide manufacturers want to export more endosulfan

Apex court asks them to file application

Rotterdam Convention meet: no consensus on including herbicide paraquat in the prior informed consent list

120 nations had agreed to the listing, but India and Gautemala played spoilsport

To bring back bees, European commission to impose temporary ban on neonicotinoid pesticide use in farms

Move to be reviewed after two years