India weeds out 27 highly toxic pesticides
Friday, May 29, 2020 - 07:00
in Earth & Climate
Decades of lobbying by rights activists and environmentalists to ban hazardous pesticides in India that are prohibited elsewhere in the world appear to be making progress following a 14 May government order proposing to eliminate 27 of the worst culprits from a list of 318 toxic farm chemicals registered for use in India.