Swiss pesticide poisons farmers in India

04.02.2020

In Yavatmal in central India, about 800 agricultural labourers were severely poisoned within a few weeks when they applied pesticides to cotton fields.

Twenty people died. Syngenta exports the insecticide “Polo”, which was partly responsible for the deaths. It has long been banned in Switzerland.

Public Eye’s investigations into these poisoning incidents in India:

https://www.publiceye.ch/fileadmin/doc/Pestizide/2018_Public_Eye_Investigation_Pesticid_Yavatmal.pdf

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