PESTS CONTROL
Experts have blamed overuse of pesticides for 25-30 per cent loss in Nepal's agricultural output. "The gross agricultural production of the nation is affected by the misuse of pesticides. So
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Perilous pesticides
Five widely used organophosphate-based pesticides have been added to the list of 17 harmful pesticides by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Food and Agriculture Organisation
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Phorate poisoning affects people in Jalandhar, Punjab
In the last week of July, most of the residents in the village Salkiana in Jalandhar, Punjab, experienced suffocation and breathlessness, following the spray of a deadly pesticide phorate in a nearby
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J S Banth , proprietor
M/s Banth Kheti Sewa Kender and Fertiliser store Dealers in insecticide, Pesticide sprayers, seeds and fertilisers: village Dher, district Ropar, Punjab
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Enervating effect
Once a common pesticide, DDT may be responsible for falling male fertility worldwide
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UNITED NATIONS
The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and the UN Industrial Deve lopment Organisa tion (UNIDO) have launched a new website on the cost-effective means of phasing out the extremely toxic and ozone
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Pest attack
The armyworm has devastated crops in several provinces of Pakistan. Sindh is plagued by the pest, which has damaged 25 per cent of the rice crop and a substantial part of the banana crop. Even as
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Threat from pesticides
indians have the highest levels of pesticide residues in their bodies, says a study conducted at the King George Medical College, Lucknow. Devika Nag, head of the department of neurology who
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Syngenta fined for GM pesticide in corn
the us environment agency recently slapped a fine of us $1.5 million on the agro-giant Syngenta Seeds Inc for selling seed corn that contained a genetically engineered pesticide. On December 21,
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Modified and making trouble
Since its inception, the agro biotech industry has had a unique selling proposition transgenic crops need lesser herbicides/pesticides than conventional varieties, therefore their use can help control environmental pollution. But a new report indicates
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Unsung babies
Exposure to <font class='UCASE'>ddt</font> increases the risk of child mortality
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Book Review
<b>Accountability in the Pesticide Industry A report based on a forum held at the Pocantico Conference Center</b> . June 25 28, 2002 . Paper No 5
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High yields in Andhra's pesticide free village
Having to write a happy story makes me uneasy. Ten journalistic years of persistently sifting for what's wrong in every event/statement has taken its toll. Cynicism, an assortment of palliatives,
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Hindon river Gasping for breath
Book>> Hindon river
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Risky contact
Pesticides cause serious health effects among US farm workers
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Genesis of malaria
A study links malaria to farming<br><br>
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Pesticides in US farmworkers' children
evidence has been found of pesticide exposure in small children (1-6 year olds) of farm-workers in the us, say researchers at the Wake Forest University in North Carolina. Led by Thomas Arcury,
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New crop scheme for Punjab farmers
the seeds of a novel programme to reduce the rice-wheat predominance in Punjab's cropping pattern have been planted. The state recently launched a multi-crop, multi-year contract farming programme.
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A handmaiden of the West
The Stockholm Convention is against the interests of the developing world