Anti-endosulfan activists will take out a march from Kasaragod to Thiruvananthapuram on Thursday to press for their demands of rehabilitation and financial assistance.

Sri Lanka is the highest user of agro-chemicals in the world.

Over 35 per cent of the world's food supply would be lost without the use of pesticides.

‘Indian Council of Medical Research to take up the project in seven States’

An Indian Council of Medical Research-sponsored health impact study will be taken up in seven States which use maximum pesticides for agriculture, according to Dr. V.M. Katoch, Secretary, Department of Health Research and Director-General, ICMR.

Demand for chemical pesticides in the country is projected to decline to 54,685 tonnes in 2013-14 as compared to last year, Parliament was informed today.

"The demand of chemical pesticides decreases to 54,685 tonnes (projected) in 2013-14 as compared to 58,368 tonnes in 2011-12," Minister of State for Agriculture Tariq Anwar said in a written reply to the Lok Sabha.

The government has stepped up measures to discourage the use of pesticides in the agricultural sector owing to the health hazards it poses and the harm it causes to the ecology.

Tightening its grip over the spurious chemicals flooding the markets, the Central Insecticides Board and Registration Committee (CIBRC) has imposed a restriction on use of all spray oils, fungicide

Tea Board is to shortly come out with a notification on regulations in regard to use of pesticides and plant protection chemicals in tea crops.

Rajbir Singh of Khadri village never thought that the pesticide got free from the Agriculture Department would not work to save his rice crop from weeds and he would have to plant the crop again.