Nagpur: An expert who wrote a World Health Organization (WHO) report flagging risks of monocrotophos, a pesticide widely found to be causing poisoning deaths in Vidarbha and suicides, also headed a ...
The pesticide has been directly linked to the tragic deaths of 35 farmers in Yavatmal district of Maharashtra in October 2017, as well as several other poisoning incidents across the country. NEW ...
Nearly a decade ago, the Indian government ruled out a ban on the production and use of monocrotophos, the highly toxic pesticide that killed 23 children this month in a village school providing free ...
As early as 2009, the United Nations health agency urged India to consider a ban on the pesticide monocrotophos - the substance said by a magistrate investigating the deaths to be the cause of the ...