Pesticides in the European Union

The Pollinis, Terre Solidaire, and Le Basic jointly published a study in November, regarding the socio-economic costs of pesticides. The report revealed that the European Union is among the largest consumers of pesticides. This adds to the controversies surrounding pesticides in the EU. Pesticide...

AUSTRALIA: PLAN FOR RULES FOR CHEMICALS AND PESTICIDES CRITICISED BY ENVIRONMENT GROUPS

Highlights:

• The environment and health groups in Australia have criticised the plan for relaxing the rules for chemicals and pesticides in the country
• The environment and health groups have been saying that, they are totally at the odds with the publi...

AUSTRALIA: SCIENTISTS ADAPTED SOLAR ENERGY TECHNOLOGY TO DESIGN SYSTEM FOR DETECTING HARMFUL CHEMICALS

Highlights:

• The scientist in Australia have adapted the solar energy technology for detecting the harmful pesticides and chemical agents
• The scientists have adapted the component from the cutting edge solar cells for designing a system for the deadly ...

PESTICIDES LABELS TO INCLUDE MODE OF ACTION INFORMATION IN UNITED KINGDOM FROM 2023

Highlights:

• The labels on the pesticides will be including the mode of action on them from the year 2023 in United Kingdom
• The labelling will be helping the farmers and the agronomists for tackling against the threat of resistance

Th...

70 NGOs HAVE URGED EUROPEAN COMMISSION TO STOP EXPORT OF PESTICIDES TO THIRD COUNTRIES

Highlights:

• A group of 70 NGOs in the European Union have urged for stopping the exports of the toxic pesticides to the third countries
• Most of the exports are done in the low-income countries which includes Brazil, Ukraine, Morocco, Mexico and Africa...

EU FOCUSES ON CHEMICAL MIXTURE STRATEGY TO KNOW ITS IMPACT ON HUMAN AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH

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• In the mid of October, the European Union have adopted a new strategy on the chemicals to deal with the impacts on human and environmental health
• The work has been started across the European Union for addressing the impacts of the pestici...

UNITED KINGDOM: SALAD SUPPLIERS TO SUPERMARKET INVESTIGATED FOR DISCHARGING PESTICIDES IN RIVERS

Highlights:

• The environment watchdog of the United Kingdom is examining more than 50 sites of the salad suppliers for discharging chemical pollution into streams and rivers
• The investigation is carried out because of a salad producer was washing the p...

EUROPEAN COMMISSION COMMITS TO STOP EXPORTS OF BANNED CHEMICALS

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• The European Commission has made a commitment to end the exports of the banned hazardous chemicals in Europe
• The European Commission have made the decision after the investigation, which has revealed that the European manufacturers are exp...

TONNES OF BANNED PESTICIDES SHIPPED TO POORER COUNTRIES FROM EUROPEAN FACTORIES

HIGHLIGHTS

• Year-long investigation has revealed that on full scale, pesticides banned from European farms are being shipped to poorer countries.
• UK leads in the act of polluting poor countries by dumping pesticides.

A year-long inves...

GROWERS IN UNITED KINGDOM HAVE URGED TO MAKE SURE RESPONSIBLE USE OF METALDEHYDE

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• The crop growers have reminded to use metaldehyde responsibly after identifying that excessive water levels detected in the water courses
• The pesticide monitoring group said that, it was concerned that more wet weather may cause excessive ...

UK AND EUROPEAN COUNTRIES SHIPPED THOUSANDS OF TONNES OF BANNED PESTICIDES TO POORER COUNTRIES

Highlights:

• The United Kingdom and Europe are shipping thousands of tonnes of the banned pesticides to the poor countries
• The early eye investigation has found that the European countries has issued some plans to export 81,000 tonnes of pesticides to ...

The anti-locust operations left crores of dead pests scattered

JAIPUR: In the last few months, over 6,500 anti-locust operations have been observed in the sustained assault by locusts in bordering districts. The operations left crores of these dead pests scattered over 3.45 lakh hectares including some portions of cropped areas that cause concern.

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Insect Apocalypse Can Be a Threat to Life on Earth

A report states that since 1970, almost half of all the insect population may have been lost. Another 2019 report by the South West Wildlife Trusts estimates approximately 40% of known 1 million species are facing extinction. The decline in the number of insects can be blamed on the overuse of pe...

Biochemical innovations

Biopesticides

In France, a corporation referred to as Amoeba aims to use Willaertia Magna amoeba to eliminate fungi in crops or Legionella pneumophilia in cooling water towers. Another approach is to style molecules that by selection kill crop infections. The case of Agrosavfe in Belgiq...