-Down to Earth NHRC has sent notices to Centre and Maharashtra, demanding detailed report in four weeks The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has taken suo motu cognizance of media reports on how several farmers in Maharashtra’s Yavatmal district had to be hospitalised during the last three months due to an infection caused by spraying of a Pesticide on the cotton crops. Many have reportedly died and condition of several other...
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20 Farmers Die Of Pesticide Poisoning In Maharashtra, Some Critical -Saurabh Gupta
-NDTV Over 600 farmers have been affected by Pesticide inhalation in Maharashtra's Vidarbha region. They skipped wearing protective gear while spraying Pesticide, officials claimed Mumbai: Twenty nine-year-old Inder Rathod, who works on cottons fields in Maharashtra's Vidarbha region, had sprayed Pesticide on the crop last week. That was the last time he saw the lush fields and fluffy cotton crop. "After the spray, I couldn't see anything. It was so sudden,"...
More »Humidity, Pesticide cocktails, new sprayer reasons for cotton farmer deaths in Yavatmal: experts -Vivek Deshpande
-The Indian Express Since July 19, 18 farmers have died in Yavatmal and 14 in surrounding districts in the cotton growing belt of the state. The two fresh deaths have been reported from Nagpur and Akola. Nagpur: Cotton cultivation experts and researchers have said the cumulative effect of several factors, such as humidity, spraying of Pesticide cocktails and use of a new kind of spraying machine, seem to be behind the deaths...
More »Pesticide deaths stalk Yavatmal fields: 18 dead, over 800 farmers in hospital -Vivek Deshpande
-The Indian Express The Agriculture Department has meanwhile rushed two ‘Quality Control’ probe teams to Yavatmal and Akola to check if some of the Pesticides were spurious. Yavatmal (Maharashra): Devidas Madavi, 57, a farm hand from Kalamb town in Yavatmal district, took up the job of spraying Pesticides for the first time this year. By August 19, 12 days after he had used a can to spray Pesticides in the cotton fields...
More »Kishore Tiwari, chief of Vasantrao Naik Shetkari Swavalamban Samiti (VNSSM), interviewed by Shishir Arya (The Times of India)
-The Times of India Kishore Tiwari has been taking up the cause of the farmers since several years. Farm suicide in the cotton-district of Yavatmal came into focus due to his persistent efforts of continuously informing the media. After the BJP came into power in Maharashtra, Tiwari was roped in as chief of Vasantrao Naik Shetkari Swavalamban Samiti (VNSSM), a state government think-tank on agriculture. He feels it is time to reduce...
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