Antibiotics in Crops registered under Insecticide Act 1968

The Union Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Narendra Singh Tomar in a written reply to the Lok Sabha on Tuesday, 10th December 2019 informed that Aureofungin, Kasugamycin, Validamycin, and Streptomycin+Tetracycline combination are the antibiotics that are registered under the ..

GoI conducts first ever National Agro Chemicals Congress in New Delhi

The National Agro Chemical Congress was conducted for four days in New Delhi. The Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare hosted the event. It was the first of its kind. It is to be conducted once in three years. The ..

Month: Current Affairs - November, 2019

Smart Agricopter

The Students of the IIT-Madras have developed a smart agricopter to eliminate the manual spraying in agricultural fields and help identify crop health by using an imaging camera. Benefits of Smart Agricopter Smart Agricopter can spray pesticides ten times faster ..

Types of Chemical Pesticides

The word pesticide comes from Latin pestis, which means the destructive agent or plague. Pesticides are generally oily or waxy substances in the form of dust, granules, pallets, emulsified concentrates, aerosols, soluble powders, wettable powders etc. Types of Chemical Pesticides ..

Government test shows 12.5% food items contain unapproved pesticides

Union government has found residues of pesticides in vegetables, fruits, milk and other food items collected from various retail and wholesale outlets across the country. It was unveiled by the report released by Union Agriculture Ministry it had analysed samples ..

Month: Current Affairs - October, 2015

Pesticides and their regulation

Pesticides and other pollutants have been a cause of grave concern to all successive governments. Toxins from excessive use of pollutants, insecticides etc. often leads to undesirable changes in species diversity and abundance. Sources of environmental toxicity have multiplied in ..