Agriculture PolicyAugust 20, 2020Three Notifications for Banning Chemical Pesticides or Restricting their Use: Govt Must Make Haste Slowly By vivian fernandes Farmers and the pesticide industry are agitated over a series of draft notifications proposing bans…Read more 0 0 0 Share
Agriculture PolicyBriefingAugust 18, 2020A Portal Makes Warehouses Across the Country Searchable; Reassures Users With Certification By vivian fernandes India is said to have 143 million tonnes of constructed storage capacity and while this is…Read more 0 0 0 Share
Agriculture PolicyBriefingAugust 16, 2020Govt says It's Banning 27 Pesticides Because Industry Hasn't Supplied Required Data; Not True, Says CCFI By vivian fernandes In July 2013, the government had set up a committee to review six neo-nicotinoids. A month later it…Read more 0 0 0 Share
Agriculture PolicyAugust 6, 2020The Agriculture Ministry Seems to be in a Hurry to Ban Commonly-used Pesticides By vivian fernandes Many of the chemical crop protection molecules proposed to be banned are in use in developed…Read more 0 0 0 Share
Agriculture PolicyAugust 6, 2020Restrictions on the Spraying of Weed Killer Glyphosate will Raise the Unease of Doing Agriculture By vivian fernandes If a technical body under the Insecticides Act overrules the objections, farmers will not be…Read more 0 0 0 Share
