Friday, 18 June 2010 Millennium Integrated Pest Management
I recall times when locusts would strike along India's borders with frightening regularity. An ignored but laudable achievement of India's pesticide regulators has been to contain this threat.
Devastating pest attacks have...
Wednesday, 16 June 2010 A Decentralized Pesticide Safety Template
India's local self-government (Panchayat) infrastructure has become the focus of a raging controversy. Village elders have begun to make and to implement their own laws. This includes assassination of young lovers who dare to...
Monday, 14 June 2010 New IPM Economics
Threshold versus calendar: this is a pillar of IPM. There used to be a time when we would spray fields once or more a week, regardless of pest incidence. Perhaps some farmers still live in this age. It is not uncommon to open a...
Saturday, 12 June 2010 True Lies
The link below highlights some of the lesser-known, but deadly nevertheless,effects of pesticide abuse: Pesticides and biodiversity – Space, the final frontier (21 May, Pesticide Information).
We cannot deny that untold numbers...
Thursday, 10 June 2010 Integrated Pest Management Integration
Pest management is not broad enough to serve common concerns of farmers. You do not see any pests in fields of lean harvests. Integrated Pest Management (IPM) is a theory conceived in minds alien to those who live off arable...
Friday, 04 June 2010 I suspect the movitation!
Take a look at: Role of agriculture in the future of climate change policy (26 February, 2009, Crop Life International)
Conservation tillage has been promoted by a prominent pesticide-industry member with an axe to grind. That...
Monday, 31 May 2010 Ethics for sustained pesticide business growth
The Spring harvest (Rabi) is just over in India. The summer sun is a free oven, baking the soil for the next monsoon. Elite farmers use scarce water and high-tech polyhouses to raise high-value vegetables, flowers, and seedlings....
Monday, 24 May 2010 Can you say it better?
There is no particular merit in empathizing with the world's rural poor, exemplified by Ram Bubu, a farmer. Multitudes have spent their professional careers in trying to liberate peasant families. We help these people...
Monday, 17 May 2010 IPM Needs Monetization
The world of free enterprise is costly. You can exploit or ignore business opportunities at your discretion, if you are part of a corporation. Farmers and other categories of consumers must await the pleasure of these...
