Indosulfan. Yes! You are right. The author misspelt it. The agrichemical is ‘Endosulfan’, a pesticide belonging to the organochlorine group of pesticides, under the Cyclodiene subgroup. ..More than 70% production of it in India made the author to name it “Indosulfan” and is raison d'être for this foreign lobby against it.
The acute toxicity of endosulfan, potential for bioaccumulation, made countries to ban it. The EU, Australia, New Zealand, and other Asian and African countries have already banned it and now the controversy is with regard to its global ban on the use and manufacture of endosulfan. The Contact Group on endosulfan and new persistent organic pollutants to the Stockholm Convention, meeting in Geneva, has proceeded to prepare draft decisions for listing endosulfan for ban. However many countries including India and China are still using it.
I would have agreed and supported the ban in totality if the issue would have been genuinely environmental or health related. But there is international politics behind... Let’s not keep commerce apart. Viewing in terms of commerce proves this lobby for opposition completely ‘western-dictate’.
Endosulfan is manufactured by three Indian companies viz. Excel Crop Care, Coromandal Fertilizers and Hindustan Insecticides Limited, which is GoI owned. They produce 4,500 tonnes annually for domestic use and another 4,000 tonnes for export. Apart from those, Bayer CropScience and Makhteshim Agan also manufacture it. For past 50 years, it was patented, manufactured and distributed by H*, a Germany based company but today when an Indian companies are manufacturing, why this opposition?
Around 6 lakhs villages in India are using this pesticide but the bad effect is only seen in Kerala in 2001 and nowhere else. When 4000 ton crops are destroyed due to lack of pesticides, it becomes inevitable to use it. Moreover it is the cheapest pesticides available in the market (Around Rs. 300 while others are Rs. 6000).
Indian farmers are ready to abandon it but is there any other alternative or technology available? The international community should take all factors into consideration and should not ban it just to sell western products.. After the intervention of NHRC in December last year, the government has ordered a fresh study by the Indian Council of Medical Research. Am here not advancing corporate interest or neglecting health of the mass but my concern is -Why this Hurry?
The acute toxicity of endosulfan, potential for bioaccumulation, made countries to ban it. The EU, Australia, New Zealand, and other Asian and African countries have already banned it and now the controversy is with regard to its global ban on the use and manufacture of endosulfan. The Contact Group on endosulfan and new persistent organic pollutants to the Stockholm Convention, meeting in Geneva, has proceeded to prepare draft decisions for listing endosulfan for ban. However many countries including India and China are still using it.
I would have agreed and supported the ban in totality if the issue would have been genuinely environmental or health related. But there is international politics behind... Let’s not keep commerce apart. Viewing in terms of commerce proves this lobby for opposition completely ‘western-dictate’.
Endosulfan is manufactured by three Indian companies viz. Excel Crop Care, Coromandal Fertilizers and Hindustan Insecticides Limited, which is GoI owned. They produce 4,500 tonnes annually for domestic use and another 4,000 tonnes for export. Apart from those, Bayer CropScience and Makhteshim Agan also manufacture it. For past 50 years, it was patented, manufactured and distributed by H*, a Germany based company but today when an Indian companies are manufacturing, why this opposition?
Around 6 lakhs villages in India are using this pesticide but the bad effect is only seen in Kerala in 2001 and nowhere else. When 4000 ton crops are destroyed due to lack of pesticides, it becomes inevitable to use it. Moreover it is the cheapest pesticides available in the market (Around Rs. 300 while others are Rs. 6000).
Indian farmers are ready to abandon it but is there any other alternative or technology available? The international community should take all factors into consideration and should not ban it just to sell western products.. After the intervention of NHRC in December last year, the government has ordered a fresh study by the Indian Council of Medical Research. Am here not advancing corporate interest or neglecting health of the mass but my concern is -Why this Hurry?
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