Endosulfan Disaster In Kerala. Endosulfan was used extensively as an aerial spray including over the state s own cashew. The spraying of endsosulfan in the cashew plantations of state owned plantation corporation of kerala caused a disaster on the biodiversity of the area a study by the dr.
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Endosulfan was the only pesticide applied to cashew plantations in the villages for 20 years and had contaminated the village environment. Continuing disaster of endosulfan in kasargod and kannur districts of kerala. The kerala government has imposed a complete ban on the use of the pesticide endosulfan which is alleged to have led to congenital deformities and even deaths in the state s kasargod district.
The endosulfan controversy first began in the late 1990s.
Researchers studying children from many villages in kasargod district kerala india have linked endosulfan exposure to delays in sexual maturity among boys. Endosulfan tragedy of kerala article in economic and political weekly 50 11 61 65 march 2015 with 298 reads how we measure reads. The researchers compared the villagers to a. It analyses the economic and political forces that have come.
