The decision will not be binding on India unless specifically ratified by the country. However, the Indian delegation to the Convention concurred with the decision after its concerns about exemptions and financial assistance were addressed, according to information reaching here.

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വോ, ഈ എന്‍ഡോസള്‍ഫാനോക്കെ അങ്ങു വടക്ക് കാസര്‍ഗോഡും കണ്ണൂരുമോക്കെയല്ലേ, അതിനു നമുക്കെന്താ എന്ന് ചിന്തിക്കുന്ന ആരേലും ഉണ്ടേല്‍ അവരുടെ ശ്രദ്ധക്ക്. ഈ എന്‍ഡോസള്‍ഫാന്‍ കേരളത്തിലും കര്‍ണാടകത്തിലുമൊക്കെ നിരോധിച്ചിട്ടുണ്ടെങ്കിലും തമിഴ്നാട്ടില്‍ നിരോധിച്ചിട്ടില്ല. അവിടെ ഇപ്പോഴും ഇതു ഉപയോഗിക്കുന്നുണ്ട്. കേരളത്തില്‍ വില്‍ക്കുന്ന പച്ചക്കറിയില്‍ കൂടിയ പങ്കും തമിഴ്നാട്ടില്‍ നിന്നാണ് വരുന്നതെന്നറിയാമല്ലോ. ഈ പച്ചക്കറികളില്‍ എന്‍ഡോസള്‍ഫാന്‍ അംശം ഉണ്ടാകാനുള്ള സാധ്യത കൂടുതലാണ്.

The fifth Conference of the Parties to the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs), which is to consider global ban on endosulfan, began in Geneva on Monday morning. The recommendation for ban on endosulfan will come up for discussion on Tuesday as per the tentative scheduled for the meeting. Initial reports from the conference indicate that India is working for a consensus in the Asia-Pacific group against the ban.

However, C. Jayakumar of Thanal, who is an observer to the convention, said in an email message from Geneva that this move might not succeed as there are countries who cannot agree to the same. “The African region is more or less talking about a common agreement of adding endosulfan to Annex A of the convention without exemptions. The same is the news from the Latin American and Caribbean Group (GRULAC).” The GRULAC is asking for financial resources to implement the ban, he added.

In the mad rush to promote unwanted GM crops, the world had forgotten how China had demonstrated an increase in rice production by 89 per cent (and a reduction a rice blast disease by 94 per cent) when farmers grew a mixture of rice varieties rather than follow the mundane and destructive monoculture.

This miracle was reported from Yunan province, and I still remember the report had donned the front page of New York Times. After several years, I am so delighted that Olivier de Schutter, UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food, has made a mention of this in an important report he submitted today.
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