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  • Global Outrage at FAO Plans to Partner with Pesticide Industry

    Posted on 27 November 2020

    Hundreds of civil society and Indigenous Peoples organizations call on the UN agency to renounce planned alliance with CropLife International On 19th November,  350 organizations in 63 countries representing hundreds of thousands of farmers, fisherfolk, agricultural workers and other communities, as well as human rights, faith-based, environmental and economic justice institutions, delivered a letter to […]

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  • PAN India’s Comments/Suggestions on the Draft Banning of Insecticides Order 2020

    Posted on 6 November 2020

    In a gazette notification issued on 14thof May 2020, the Ministry of Agriculture proposed a draft order intended to ban the 27 pesticides and sought comments or suggestions from stakeholders. Recognising that the proposal of banning 27 pesticides is a responsible, welcoming development and timely decision from the Ministry of Agriculture for protecting public health […]

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  • PAN India urge Indian Agriculture Ministry to ban glyphosate

    Posted on 6 November 2020

    In its comments submitted on the draft ‘Restriction on use of Glyphosate Order, 2020’, PAN India urged the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Government of India to ban glyphosate (import, production, sales and use) in India, considering its health and environmental effects as well as wide spread illegal use.     Pesticide Action Network (PAN) India […]

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  • Pesticide Watch NGO releases report ‘State of Glyphosate Use in India’

    Posted on 16 October 2020

    Press Release| 16th October 2020     The pesticide watch group organisations Pesticide Action Network India and PAN Asia Pacific released a report titled ‘State of Glyphosate Use in India’, in a webinar titled Elimination of the Uncultivated Greens: Glyphosate Usage in India’conducted today. Ms. Sarojeni Rengan, executive director of PAN AP released the report. […]

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  • State of Glyphosate Use in India

    Posted on 16 October 2020

    PAN India releases the report ‘State of Glyphosate Use in India’ in a webinar titled ‘Elimination of the Uncultivated Greens: Glyphosate Usage in India’ organised today, 16th October 2020   Report in Brief   This report reveals the ground reality of glyphosate use in India based on field survey in seven Indian States. This study […]

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  • Webinar on Elimination of the Uncultivated Greens: Glyphosate Usage in India

    Posted on 13 October 2020

    Invitation| 12th October 2020   A Pesticide Action Network (PAN) India free webinar October 16th | 11:00 am India Standard Time Register Here Modern development has juxtaposed the existence of nature, between wanted and unwanted, cultivated and uncultivated. Glyphosate has become a tool to settle this. But it did not become a tool straightaway. It […]

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  • PR_ Marathi_यवतमाळ विषबाधा: सिंजेंटाचे कीटकनाशक जास्त प्रमाणात गुंतलेले आहे.

    Posted on 19 September 2020

    पब्लिक आय, ईसीसीएचआर, पॅन इंडिया आणि पॅन एपी कडून प्रेस रिलीझ : 18.09.2020 हिवाळी हंगाम २०१७ मध्ये, मध्य भारतातील यवतमाळ प्रदेशातील शेकडो कापूस उत्पादकांना कीटकनाशकांद्वारे तीव्र विषबाधा झाली. पॅन इंडिया आणि पब्लिक आय यांनी दिलेल्या अहवालांमध्ये संदर्भ आणि त्याचे परिणाम यांचे दस्तऐवजीकरण केले गेले. सिंजेंटाने या घटनेच्या आरोग्य व आर्थिक दुष्परिणामांची कोणतीही जबाबदारी स्पष्टपणे नाकारली […]

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  • PR Hindi यवतमाळ विषाक्तता: सिंजेंटा के कीटनाशक अधिकतम शामिल हैं

    Posted on 19 September 2020

    पब्लिक आई, ईसीसीएचआर, पैन इंडिया और पैन एपी से प्रेस विज्ञप्ति: 18.09.2020 सर्दियों के मौसम २०१७ में, मध्य भारत के यवतमाल क्षेत्र में सैकड़ों कपास उत्पादकों को कीटनाशकों द्वारा गंभीर रूप से विषाक्तता हुई थी। पैन इंडिया और पब्लिक आई की रिपोर्ट ने संदर्भ और इसके निहितार्थ का दस्तावेजीकरण किया। सिंजेंटा ने स्पष्ट रूप से […]

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  • Yavatmal poisonings: Syngenta’s pesticide far more heavily involved

    Posted on 18 September 2020

    Yavatmal Poisonings: Syngenta’s Pesticide Far More Heavily Involved PRESS RELEASE | PAN India, PAN AP, Public Eye and ECCHR | 18th September 2020 Photo: Dileep Kumar, PAN India The incidents of occupational pesticide poisoning in 2017 by Syngenta’s “Polo” in the Indian region of Yavatmal took place on a far larger scale than previously thought. […]

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  • Webinar on ‘Why India Should #Ban27Pesticides’

    Posted on 13 July 2020

    Update| 13th July 2020 In May, the Indian government announced that it is moving to ban 27 pesticides that are linked to health and environmental harm. However, the agrochemical industry quickly moved to oppose the ban. The Indian government is set to decide in the coming weeks. In this webinar, various experts will discuss why […]

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