This happened in a village i visited last week.. The people were spraying water mixed with endosulphan to clean the honey comb and the bees so that they don't cause a mess during a function at night. More over the spray jet was falling into a community tank which is used washing and drinking by people and animals a like..The distracting picture of what was left behind is here..
Who is going to make these people understand the downsides of these deeds?
How the people get access to endosulphane when its banned?
Preservers destroying the nature for it is most vital !!!
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Karnataka bans Endosulfan
http://www.cseindia.org/content/karnataka-bans-endosulfan
Have to seehow far it goes
. This may be one in a millon such cases happening in this area as there farmers are highly depended on chemical farmining and use comparitively much higher amounts of fertilizers and pesticides with in the areas i knw.. We just don't is the level of environmental degradation that is happening in this area.
Has not the use of Endosulphan regulted in those communities even nw..
Thanks, Anil. Could you give me the name of the village, please? In Kerala, we have a similar situation in Kasargode district..you would be knowing..
I said market forces, because this pesticide is freely available, and is being used in doses much higher than what is prescribed, causing very very serious malformations across generations. But the gruesome facts do not reach the ignorant farmers. Neither are the use of such pesticides effectively regulated in such agricultural villages. Probably the only way to make a quick change is to restrict the easy accessibility of hazardous pesticides in the market, by putting in a mandatory requirement between the buyer and the the supplier
painful ignorance..which is intentionally exploited for market success..
Thanks for the post, Anil. Which is this village?