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‘Pesticide poisoning’: 3 Maharashtra farmers sue Syngenta in Basel -Rahul Wadke

-The Hindu Business Line

Monetary compensation for loss of lives, ban on Swiss export of pesticide sought

Mumbai: Three farmers from Yavatmal district of Maharashtra filed a civilian suit in a civil court in Basel, Switzerland, on Thursday, seeking monetary compensation against global agrochemical giant Syngenta.

Among the applicants are two women who, they claim, lost their husbands to pesticide poisoning — while spraying Syngenta’s pesticide Polo on cotton fields in 2017.

In that year, about 700 cases of pesticide poisoning were reported in the district.

Syngenta’s global headquarters is in Basel.

Three separate claims

Swiss lawyer Silvio Riesen, who has filed the case in the Basel court, told BusinessLine that the claims in the civilian court are that the Syngenta pesticide is deficient according to Swiss product liability laws and the company did not inform the farmers sufficiently about the risks, and that is why they got poisoned.

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