International experts suggest banning hazardous pesticides, to reduce suicide rates

UK- based Centre for Pesticide Suicide Prevention has urged the Agricultural commissioner,  S K Malhotra, to ban not only 12 pesticides on review, but also others.

The reason for the request being  safety of humans and environment , but also to save lives of vulnerable population in India.Every year, around 1,50,000 deaths occur due to suicide by pesticide ingestion.

The recommendation was aimed towards suicides among rural population.In Sri Lanka, suicide rates increased after the introduction of strong chemical pesticide and the court in, the end, had to ban the pesticides to reduce the suicide rate.This decision had little to no effect on agricultural outputs.
 

UK- based Centre for Pesticide Suicide Prevention has urged the Agricultural commissioner,  S K Malhotra, to ban not only 12 pesticides on review, but also others.

The reason for the request being  safety of humans and environment , but also to save lives of vulnerable population in India.Every year, around 1,50,000 deaths occur due to suicide by pesticide ingestion.

The recommendation was aimed towards suicides among rural population.In Sri Lanka, suicide rates increased after the introduction of strong chemical pesticide and the court in, the end, had to ban the pesticides to reduce the suicide rate.This decision had little to no effect on agricultural outputs.