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CHENNAI: Both pesticide-related and non-pesticide suicides among farmers are growing annually at 3.9 per cent, according to a study conducted by Sneha and the Centre for Suicide Research, University of Oxford, Lakshmi Vijayakumar, founder, Sneha, has said. CHENNAI: Both pesticide-related and non-pesticide suicides among farmers are growing annually at 3.9 per cent, according to a study conducted by Sneha and the Centre for Suicide Research, University of Oxford, Lakshmi Vijayakumar,...

Dhanuka Pesticides, incorporated in 1985, is a company primarily engaged in manufacture of technical grade pesticides namely Fenvalerate and Cypermethrin. The total volume of shares traded at the BSE was 280. Dhanuka Pesticides fixes record date for interim dividend Dhanuka Pesticides said that it has fixed Apr.

Some 640 metric tons of obsolete chemicals has been shipped in the second round 'waste disposal project', the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development announced. The ministry said the project has exported over 1,100 tons of obsolete pesticides, stockpiled in the country over the last 40 years, for incineration. According to Biratu, 2,500 tons of obsolete chemicals had been shipped at a cost of over 6 million US dollars in the first round of the waste disposal project. The project has...

Gord Hunter voted against the pesticide bylaw when council last debated it in 2005 and he said he would again consult property owners in his ward. there's no reason for city council to delay restrictions," said Gideon Forman, executive director for CAPE. It says that 84% of 500 Ottawa residents polled said they believe lawn pesticides threaten the environment. Yesterday the Ottawa Environmental Coalition, a group of local lawn care companies, announced it's reduced the amount of product...

from sophisticated chemical and biological attack, it remains possible for an evildoer to assemble a fertilizer bomb on U. The fertilizer industry and farm interests, among other lobbies, have successfully batted away multiple attempts to do so. The common fertilizer ammonium nitrate -- which McVeigh and his accomplice mixed with fuel oil and packed into a rental truck that brought down the federal building in Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995 -- still is unregulated by the federal...