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WTH urges Governor to ban sale of toxic pesticides
12/23/2018 10:11:59 PM
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Jammu, Dec 23: Welcoming a number of people friendly initiatives taken by Satyapal Malik, the Governor of J&K, "We The Human" - Forum For Nature and Mankind, a registered charitable trust working for conservation of environment, in a press conference organized at press club Jammu, made an appeal to the Governor to ban sale of toxic pesticides, insecticides of Class I category in the state. Retired Principal District & Session Judge K Y S Manhas, Capt. Lalit Sharma IFS, S. Prem Singh, M. Sadiq Nargal Food Technologist, CSIR-IIM Consultant K K Sharma, Advocate Sahib Aggarwal, Mushtaq Ahmed Shah, S K Arora, Farmers' leader Ashwani Sharma, Mohinder Kumar, Anil Bhat, Inder Parihar, B D Chowdhary, Naresh Verma, Seema Parihar, Narender Jasrotia were among other members of the trust present on the occasion. Addressing the journalists, K Y S Manhas Vice Chairman of Executive Body of the trust said that recently, Punjab Governm-ent banned sale of 20 pesticides/ insecticides viz. Phosphamidion, Mathomyl, Phorate, Triazophos, Mono-crotophos along with several other class I pesticides. These toxic class I pesticides are categorized into extremely hazardous (class IA) and highly hazardous (Class IB) to human health by the World Health Organization and are banned in many countries. Phosphamidion is banned in 49 countries, Phorate in 37 countries, Trizophos in 40 countries and Monocrot-ophos in 60 countries as per report published by CSE (Centre for Science & Environment) a nonprofit public interest research and advocacy organization based in New Delhi, India.
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