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| Three Years ET Campaign yields fruits | | Much awaited 'Pesticides regulatory Board' to function from coming Agricultural season | | Javaid Naikoo
Early Times Report
Srinagar, Nov 26: Three years campaign of Early Times through news stories published against supply of substandard pesticides and fertilizers in Jammu and Kashmir now yields fruits as state government has decided to make much awaited 'pesticide Regulatory Board' functional from coming agricultural working season.
State government taking serious note of roots of Mafia and illegal means of people dealing with substandard pesticides and fertilizers exposed by Early Times from past three years through a series of stories published time to time is all set to make Pesticides Regulatory Board functional from coming agricultural season.
Making confirmation, Director Agriculture Kashmir, Altaf Ahmad Andrabi told Early times that "Hopefully by next working season, pesticides regulatory board will be functional here as state government is very serious to curb sale and supply of substandard pesticides and fertilizers in Jammu and Kashmir."
"we are taking a meeting in this regard on Friday to discuss necessary issues related with framing law enforcing agencies, completing its constitutional formalities and we are also looking to consult some foreign models ordered already for this purpose to make it a successful institution for all times to come." Andrabi said Pertinently in its Maiden Budget presented by Finance Minister, Dr Haseeb Drabu, state government had said that in order to check supply of substandard pesticides and fertilizers to Jammu and Kashmir, it will set up one 'Pesticide Regulation Authority' which will approve and monitor all the pesticides that goes into Jammu and Kashmir.
The government then also said that it will also approve any reputed international firm to set up a unit in Kashmir where most of this distress has been felt over the years due to use of Substandard pesticides and Fertilizers supplied by Mafia unchecked. After facing massive loss over the years orchardists and farmers on many occasions hit streets of Kashmir against unrestrained sale of substandard pesticides and fertilizers in markets and asked government to curb supply of substandard pesticides and fertilizers to J&K.
According to Experts of Agriculture, Pesticide Regulation authority is actually a board of Experts having scientific knowledge and access to Laboratories at one place within the state preferably in Kashmir where most of the Pesticides supplied from outside the state are used to check all kinds of Pesticides supplied to Jammu and Kashmir and recommend for Orchardists on time.
Experts believe that after regulation board is set up, only pesticides which fall under pesticide act of India 1968 and F.C.O 1985 will be allowed to supply to Jammu and Kashmir and recommended on time for Orchardists to use.
Pertinently Early Times in past three years carried series of stories with all the fair details and exposed roots and illegal means employed by politically backed mafia supplying substandard pesticides and fertlizers to Jammu and Kashmir despite many threat warnings by mafia associated with illegal business on many occasions over the years.
The mafia dealing with Substandard pesticides and Fertilizers are so much influenced that even timely placed Minister's and top Brass officials of the concerned Department over the years would deliberately refuse to talk on the issue and also tried their best indirectly to motivate Early Times many a times not to carry stories exposing illegal business of substandard pesticides and fertilizers.
As per sources pesticides and fertilizers available in markets over the years were allowed by officials concerned without checking their nature in laboratories before farmers could use them in their Orchards. Sources said that all varieties of pesticides and fertilizers including first tree spray supplied to Kashmir of Different companies like Fil Industries, Rallies India, TaTa Chemical, Syngenta, Bayor, Cheminova and Anu Products having an approximate annual turnover of Rupees 30 to 40 Crores from Jammu and Kashmir would be allowed to store and sale without testing them in Laboratories. |
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