Endosulfan Effect Truths- Endosulfan - A Victim of Dirty Politics
- The Battle between European Pesticide Manufacturers and India’s Farmers
- Reviewing the Alternatives of Endosulfan
- Will The Government Force Farmers To Commit More Suicides?
- Petition
- The Predicament of Agriculture without Endosulfan in India
- Karnataka high court gives state govt one last chance in endosulfan case
- Endosulfan: ryots want to be impleaded
- Farmers Know Best
- Media Becomes Fuel for Endosulfan Fire
Monthly Archives: April 2011
The Kasargod conundrum
It appears that Endosulfan was good for the world only as long as the EU was manufacturing and exporting it. Endosulfan was a widely-used pest-protection in agricultural economies for decades. There have been no alleged ‘victims’ of Endosulfan anywhere in … Continue reading
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Tagged CSE, endosulfan, endosulfan ban, Endosulfan kerala, endosulfan victims, European Union, IPEN, PAN, Stockholm convention, Thanal
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The Battle between European Pesticide Manufacturers and India’s Farmers
Since India overtook the global production of Endosulfan, Indian farmers were able to amply reap the benefits of this beneficial-friendly, cost-effective pesticide. Assumed to be in use for almost three decades in India prominently in the states of West Bengal, … Continue reading
Reviewing the Alternatives of Endosulfan
Since EU lost its share of the Endosulfan pie when it went generic decades ago, their recent promotion of patented pesticides is only part of its attempt to re-enter global pesticide trade. Since their attempts to compete with Indian Endosulfan … Continue reading
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Tagged Agriculture, corruption, endosulfan, endosulfan truth, farmers, farmers of india, honeybees, India, Stockholm convention
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Will The Government Force Farmers To Commit More Suicides
Agriculture, the principal occupation in India has been acutely inequitable to its practitioners over the last couple of decades. With former late Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri’s credo ‘Jai Jawan Jai Kisan’ lain to waste, farmer suicides have since been … Continue reading
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Petition
Endosulfan has been used for over 50 years across the world and has proven to be a key element in the integrated pest management systems across various countries. There has been no evidence of Endosulfan affecting human health or on … Continue reading
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Cascading effects of flawed NIOH report on Endosulfan
In 2002, National Institute of Occupational Health (NIOH), Ahmedabad published a study titled, “Report of the investigations of unusual illnesses allegedly produced by Endosulfan exposure in Padre Village of Kasargod district (N. Kerala)”. It was followed by another study made … Continue reading
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Taking Advantage
I am always amazed by the extent to which we humans take advantage of others’ problems. And we go to an even greater (read lower) extent when that person is not well equipped with knowledge about a certain thing related … Continue reading
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Endosulfan ban: no clear battle lines drawn
Bangalore: Mohammed Asheel, assistant nodal officer of the Kerala government’s endosulfan rehabilitation programme, recalls his initial scepticism at the reported effects of the fertilizer in Kasargod, the northernmost district of Kerala. “I found it difficult to believe that 158 different … Continue reading
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Tagged endosulfan, endosulfan ban, endosulfan victims, kerala, mint
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