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HYDERABAD
Senior person of Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) and erstwhile MP B. Vinod Kumar requested the State authorities to instantly prohibition weedicide/herbicide ‘paraquat dichloride’ arsenic it is claiming the lives astatine slightest 20 farmers each period successful respective territory hospitals pursuing its accidental ingestion by them oregon its intentional consumption.
Addressing a property league present connected Saturday, helium stated that pesticide companies were making and selling the herbicide wide with the claims that it would termination weeds completely, hiding the facts astir its sick effects. About 70 countries crossed the satellite had banned the herbicide since it had nary antidote available.
In India, the Odisha authorities had banned it successful 2023 and extended the prohibition each six months. He said forensic medicine doctors of Gandhi Hospital here, MGM Warangal and the territory infirmary astatine Karimnagar besides revealed herbicide arsenic the crushed successful suicides. The Agriculture section officials and the Vice Chancellor of Prof. Jayashankar Telangana Agricultural University excessively were successful favour of banning the herbicide.
Mr. Vinod Kumar further stated that the State section president of the Indian Medical Association excessively had written a missive to the authorities seeking a prohibition connected the herbicide. A doc from Kondagattu successful Jagtial territory Marri Mahesh Reddy and his squad was visiting villages successful the country to make consciousness among farmers against the herbicide.
In a missive addressed to Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy, Mr. Vinod Kumar requested for measures to prohibition the herbicide and to make consciousness among the farming assemblage to usage lesser unsafe herbicides oregon usage of alternate methods specified arsenic brushwood cutters.
