-Hindustan Times Malkeet Kaur, 55, travels 60 km each day to Kalianwali in the heart of Haryana’s cotton belt to undergo radiation therapy at the Advanced Cancer Diagnostic, Treatment and Research Centre in Bathinda. A resident of Kaali Mali village in the Sirsa district, the mother of four was diagnosed with breast cancer in her right breast in April this year. She now goes for radiotherapy five days a week to remove...

-The Asian Age It’s a huge story. And it’s not getting the kind of media attention it deserves. It’s a story about India’s farmers. It’s a story about the ongoing agrarian crisis in the country in the wake of two successive years of drought. If one looks only at the figures of growth of gross domestic product which tend to make headlines in financial publications, there’s no story for agriculture comprises...

-The Times of India Ajab (Junagadh): Forty-year-old farmer Mahesh Ratanpara, a resident of Ajab village, 45km from Junagadh town, has decided to switch to organic farming. In fact, this year he has not used a drop of chemical-based Pesticide in his 22-bigha farm. He is not the only one to have decided to switch to organic farming. At least 102 other farmers from the village with population of over 9,000, have decided...

-The Indian Express If you are a vegetarian in India, the chances of your suffering Pesticide exposure may be higher than for those predominantly consuming non-vegetarian foods. Almost a fifth of all foods produced and sold in the country contain Pesticide residues, according to a Union agriculture ministry-sponsored nationwide network project involving 25 participating labs. During 2014-15, as many as 20,618 food samples were collected and analysed under a ‘Monitoring of Pesticide Residues...

-The Hindu Kuruvai village in Palakkad credited with replacing Pesticides with agroecology Kochi (Kerala): The success of a group of farmers in Kuruvai village in Palakkad district’s Vadakkencherry panchayat in cultivating paddy without chemical Pesticides has come in for praise from United Nations Environment Programme. It finds a prominent place in a book on replacing highly hazardous Pesticides with agroecology brought out by Pesticide Action Network International. The book was released at the...