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A Deadly Damage |
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by G Swaminathan |
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![]() What started as a stunning statement of a massive 800% than acceptable level of pesticide concentration in mother’s milk by Dr. Rashmi Sanghvi of IIT, Kanpur the programme progressed on more gruesome, pathetic and shocking visuals of the population both children and adults by pesticide poisoning. There was another blow when Dr SG Kabra from Jaipur explained that how disfigured babies are born because of this poison. In Punjab, it was shown that a train running between Bathinda and Bikaner is named as ‘Cancer Express’ which mostly transports innumerable cancer patients for treatment to the hospital.
There were persons who subscribed to the ideas and methods of organic farming and also practice them successfully. Dr Ramanjenyulu from Center for Sustainable Agriculture promotes it very credibly by increasing the quantum of beneficiaries every year. It is believed that though organic farming is safe, it could reduce the yield and some in the beginning mentioned that pesticides provide a cosmetic look to the fruits and vegetables which are a fatal attraction to the buyers. The yield may be less at the initial stages, it was said, will be improved in the following years. Educating the farmers about the advantages of organic farming is the most important point underlined in the show.
The bad part of the issue was the illogical and meek defense shown by Mr Rajju Shroff, CMD, United Phosphorous Limited from Gujarat, a major pesticide manufacturing unit. The worse part was that his company is doing a huge business in India and he was obviously nervous and spoke without clarity and called all those who spoke about the pesticide poisoning as liars. The worst part came much later that his family, in fact, his brother is the biggest exporter of organic pesticides to other countries while he is manufacturing and trading poison without qualms.
In fact, this show showed the chemical industry, which it belonged to, in a poor light and the greed of the Indian population and traders who are only interested in making profits rather than opting for safeguarding agriculture and mankind. The programme showed that Sikkim government had completely done away with the pesticides and it should be an eye opener and role model to all the other states of India and also to the central government.
Pesticides like Endosufan and Chloropyrifos have been banned by the government already; but violation of bans and rules are very common in India. Aamir Khan has given a clarion call for the closing down of the pesticide industries indirectly. But will he be heard or will the message go just like any other serious issue like scams and corruption?
We have to wait and watch. Read also: Poison in the Menu Are we being slow poisoned? |
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24-Jun-2012 | |||||||||||||||||||
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Comments on this Article
Sanjay 06/28/2012 08:42 AM
Suresh Mandan 06/26/2012 13:05 PM
Dinesh Kumar Bohre 06/26/2012 06:55 AM
G Swaminathan 06/25/2012 23:02 PM
Suresh Mandan 06/25/2012 16:49 PM
Murthy Iyer 06/25/2012 12:53 PM |
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