India Resists Ban On Deadly Pesticide

• by Ranjit Devraj (new delhi)
• Thursday, April 21, 2011
• Inter Press Service

Will India, the world’s biggest manufacturer of the pesticide endosulfan, and also the biggest victim of the toxic pesticide, persist with opposing its ban globally?

A coalition of health and environmental activists fears that the central government is preparing to oppose a ban at the Apr. 25 -29 fifth conference of the parties (CoP) to the Stockholm Convention on persistent organic pollutants, or ‘POPs Treaty’, in Geneva.
'We understand that the central government will continue to support endosulfan use, although India risks being isolated in Geneva,' said Ravi Agarwal, director of Toxics Link, a participating member of the International POPs Elimination Network....