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Dilip Patel
Ahmedabad, July 20, 2024 ( Google translation from Gujarati)
A fake pesticide manufacturing factory has been caught from Savarkundla bypass in Amreli district.
Traders earning crores of rupees by selling fake medicines are taking people’s lives. An unauthorized pesticide manufacturing factory and a stock of medicines were found. Alkesh Bhanu Chodwadia was arrested from the factory site while he was in Mancity. Pesticides worth Rs. 12 lakh were recovered from paddy. There were 7 machines.
Where was the fake medicine caught earlier?
– A fake pesticide manufacturing factory worth Rs. 17.33 lakh was caught from Wadhwan’s Velavadar house.
– Fake pesticides were being sold in Ankleshwar.
– Sunlight Enterprises located at Street No. 5 in Somnath Industries Area near Narayan Weigh-Bridge on Kotharia Road in Rajkot used to manufacture fake medicines.
– A fake pesticide factory was operating in Navagam near Rajkot. Here in Rudanagar, a person named Brijesh Khanghar was making pesticides for farming without a license.
– Jayesh Ghatia of Crystal Fertilizer firm was making fake pesticides near Ishwar Way Bridge on Shaper Padwala Road in Rajkot.
– Fake medicines of companies of Maharashtra and Haryana were recovered from Kishore Jagannath Patel and Ashok Jagannath Patel of Ankleshwar GIDC. Which included pesticides of Polo, Extra, Mono, Regent and different names.
About 45% of crops are destroyed by pests and diseases. Therefore, farmers spray poison on crops to kill pests. In Gujarat, 6200 tonnes of pesticides are used in 96 lakh hectares of fields. 10 thousand tonnes of pesticides are consumed, which include 4 thousand tonnes of fungicides, seed coatings and herbicides. In which 5 percent of pesticides were found to be adulterated. Farmers use 25 percent fake pesticides due to lack of information.
Gujarat has become the fourth state in the country where pesticides are adulterated.
4 to 23 percent of medicines are adulterated. In 2018-19, 4011 samples of medicines were taken from pesticide shops in Gujarat and tested for quality in laboratories in Gandhinagar and Junagadh. In which 174 medicines were not up to the standard.
This policy does not apply to those who want to do wrong things.’ They are mostly found manufacturing banned drugs. This is the biggest danger. It perpetuates the toxic cycle. Acute toxicity, long-term health effects and risk to the ecosystem have been proven.
There are 66 pesticides that are banned abroad. But it is used in our farm.
18 pesticides were banned in 2018 and 20. These include benomyl, carbaryl, diazinon, fenarimol, fenthion, linuron, methoxy ethyl mercury chloride, methyl parathion, sodium cyanide, thymopan, tridemorphyl, alachlor, dichlorvos, phorate, phosphamidone, triazophos.
Banned pesticides
Acephate, altrazine, benfecarb, butachlor, captan, carbadenyzyme, carbofuran, chlorpyrifos, 2.4-D, deltamethrin, dicofol, dimethoate, dinocap, diuron, malathion, mancozeb, methomyl, monocrotophos, oxyfluorone, penofol, metholophos, thiafen, thiram, zinab and ziram. (Acephate, Altrazine, Benfuracarb, Butachlor, Captan, Carbendazim, Carbofuran, Chlorpyrifos, 2.4-D, Deltamethrin, Dicofol, Dimethoate, Dinocap, Diuron, Malathion, Mancozeb, Methomyl, Monocrotophos, Poxifluno, Suflufon, Mancozeb, Ulfulin, Mac, Oxygen, Thiram, Zinab and Gayaram.
27 have recommended a complete ban on toxic pesticides. The chemical industry is poisoning people to make huge profits. The chemical industry is selfish and operates for profit.
Monocrotophos, Acephate are banned in the state of Maharashtra. The Punjab state government has not issued new licenses for five of the 27 pesticides (2,4-D, Benfuracarb, Dicofol, Methomyl, Monocrotophos) because of their harmful effects. In Kerala, a ban was imposed in 2011 due to public health concerns Of these pesticides, monocrotophos, carbofuran, atrazine have been banned.
The manufacture of aldrin, benzene hexachloride, calcium cyanide, chlordane, copper acetoarsinide and menzone, nitrofen, paraquat dimethyl sulphate, pentafluoro nitro benzene, pentachlorophenol, dieldrin, tetradifone, toxaphene, aldicarb, dibromo chloropropane, endrin, ethyl mercury chloride, heptachlor and methoxychone has been banned.
Additionally, of the 27 pesticides, atrazine, carbofuran, chlorpyrifos, malathion, mancozeb, monocrotophos are toxic to children. These include birth defects, brain damage and low IQ. Monocrotophos, in particular, is responsible for the Bihar disaster in 2013, in which 23 school children died after eating food contaminated with the pesticide.
There are 282 pesticides registered in India. These 27 harmful pesticides are less than 10 percent of all registered pesticides. Banning them will have no impact on food security and agricultural production.
The Agriculture Ministry has requested the WHO to review all the remaining pesticides registered for use in the country. The criteria used for evaluating pesticides need to be re-examined.
The government has banned 40 pesticides and 4 pesticide formulations. Yet such factories manufacture it.
The Indian government has banned 40 pesticides and 4 pesticide formulations.
The registration of 18 pesticides including 2, 4 and 5-T has been cancelled.
Aluminum phosphide, captafol, cypermethrin, dazomet, D
The government has banned the use of pesticides like DT, fenitrothion, methyl bromide, monocrotophos and trifluralin.
6 pesticides have been banned, including alachlor, dichlorvos, phorate, phosphamidone, triazophos and triclophoron.
Danger
Chlorpyrifos (CPS) is an organic pesticide used in house paints on crops, animals and buildings. It is used to kill many pests including insects. It attacks the nervous system of insects by inhibiting the acetylcholinesterase enzyme. Many scientists of the world have experimented on it and proved that it is a danger to the environment, remains in the soil for years and the roots of agricultural crops do not like this pesticide. So plants need more chemical fertilizers.
For 55 years in the world and 45 years in Gujarat, this pesticide has wreaked havoc on humans and living nature.
The Pesticide Action Network (PN) is a network of more than 600 participating NGOs, institutions and individuals in 90 countries. They have opposed these 27 pesticides and demanded the government to immediately ban them in India. But the Gujarat government is not ready to do anything about this.
Most of the farmers and agricultural labourers are spraying pesticides without any safety equipment and are suffering from toxic effects.
The number of highly hazardous pesticides was 338 in March 2021. Some pesticides are so toxic that there is no antidote available for them.
Sample failed
As of July 19, 2019, 259 samples of pesticides taken in 33 districts in the state over two years were found to be of low quality.
The drug was defective. This caused damage to people, animals, environment, crops. Farmers were incurring losses worth crores of rupees. They used to buy medicines at high prices. The soil was also poisonous.
Insects did not die from pesticides.
Fake medicines are being sold by putting the label of approved pharmaceutical companies. Most of the samples were found to be fake and ineffective.
The maximum number of 23 fake medicines were found in Rajkot district.
Samples of 18 medicines have failed in Gir Somnath.
16 samples failed in Aravalli and Panchmahal.
15 samples failed in Gandhinagar, 15 in Sabarkantha, 12 in Navsari, 11 in Kutch and Mehsana.
There are 118 pesticide inspectors in Gujarat. They take names. But it has been observed that some inspectors and laboratories are creating a lot of ruckus and passing the samples. If this confusion is taken into account, the 4 percent adulteration caught increases to 10 percent.
The same thing happened in 2017-18. Out of 2905 samples, 77 failed and cases were registered against 59 manufacturers or distributors.
In 2016-17, out of 3277 samples, 73 samples were found adulterated, 27 cases were registered and action was taken.
In 2015-16, out of 3252 samples, 92 samples failed and crime was registered against 50 traders.
In 2014-14, out of 3305 samples, 115 samples failed, 57 manufacturers-dealers were registered and legal action was taken.
Use of pesticides
The country’s pesticide market was Rs 17522 crore in 2016, with an annual growth rate of 7 percent, this market is estimated to be Rs 34843 crore in 2026.
The consumption of pesticides worldwide is about 2 million tonnes per year. Of which 24% is used in the United States and 45% in Europe and the remaining 25% in the rest of the world.
600 grams of crop protection chemicals are used per hectare in the country, while in the world this rate is 3 kg per hectare. Pesticides worth Rs 22,000 crore are used in India and Rs 2000 crore in Gujarat. However, 20 to 30 percent of the crops grown in the country are damaged due to diseases and pests. In 2012-13, the Department of Chemicals and Petrochemicals said that crops worth Rs. 45000 crore were destroyed. According to a study by industry body Assocham, in 2014, crops worth Rs. 50,000 crore were destroyed.
Farmers in the country have 30,000 types of herbicides, 3000 types of nematodes and 30,000 crop-eating insects.
Agriculture and horticulture account for 67% of the total pesticide use in India. 40% are organochlorine pesticides, 30% organophosphates, 15% carbamates, 10% synthetic pyrethroids and 5% other chemicals. In India, paddy crops use the highest 29% of pesticides, followed by cotton at 27%, vegetables at 9% and pulses at 9%.
Medicine becomes pain
In Gujarat, 100 people are dying of cancer every day directly or indirectly due to pesticides sprayed in farming. 2 lakh cancer patients have been found in Gujarat in 3 years. In 2018, there were 66 thousand cancer patients. In 2020, 70 thousand. In 2024, there will be 1 lakh cancer patients in Gujarat. For this, 104 medicines are responsible for destroying insects on crops in the field, destroying fungi and destroying weeds.
In India, the highest number of diabetes and heart disease patients were in Gujarat. Now, according to the population, the highest number of patients are in Gujarat. Gujarat has become number one in cancer by defeating Punjab. In which breast cancer is 30 percent and mouth cancer is 36 percent. Which is caused by pesticides and tobacco.
The average Indian consumes 0.27 mg of DDT with delicious foods in his daily diet, as a result of which an average Indian’s body gets cancer.
The cumulative DDT level of tissues ranges from 12.8 to 31 ppm, one of the highest in the world.
Pesticide levels in wheat range from 1.6 to 17.4 ppm, rice from 0.8 to 16.4 ppm, beans from 2.9 to 16.9 ppm, peanuts from 3.0 to 19.1 ppm, green vegetables from 5.00 and potatoes from 68.5 ppm.
Dairy in Gujarat from 4.8 to 6.3 ppm
Dildrin was also found in 90 percent of milk samples by O. Due to the use of chemical poisons in agriculture, river water has also become toxic. Drinking water of lakes has been found to contain pesticides from 0.02 to 0.20 ppm.
NCRB data says that 31,026 people died due to pesticides (suicide and accidental intake) in India in 2019.
Germs are increasing
In 2014-15, 2.6 percent of vegetables and agricultural products were found to have pests.
Out of 20618 samples, 543 samples were bad. 56 percent of the failed samples were vegetables. In which more bacteria than normal was found. This amount was high in vegetables like green chillies, cauliflower, eggplant, tomato, capsicum. The central government report said that the number of bacteria in food is increasing. ( Google translation from Gujarati)
