എന്ടോസള്ഫാന് നിരോധിച്ചു .ജെനീവയില് നടന്ന സ്റ്റോക്ക് ഹോം കാനവന്ഷനില് തീരുമാനമായി .ഈ കീടനാശിനിയാല് കഷ്ടതയനുഭവിക്കുന്ന ജന ങ്ങള്ക്ക് ആശ്വാസമാണ് ഈ പ്രഖ്യാപനം Stockholm: India has agreed to heed to global consensus on banning Endosulfan at the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) which is underway at Geneva. A final declaration is expected in a few hours from now.
India was completely isolated among other countries when China also stood in support for conditional ban on the pesticide. India is pressing for a good financial package as it would have to bear huge economic cost as a result of the ban.
The efforts also assure that the Stockholm convention review committee will work with parties and observers to come up with alternatives. Further, it is also decided that the convention will provide financial assistance to the developing countries to replace Endosulfan with alternatives. Endosulfan is widely used in cultivation of several agricultural crops.
After intense negotiations over the last five days as to how the parties to the Stockholm Convention must deal with Endosulfan, India and other developing countries such as Indonesia have agreed to join the "consensus" because the two draft decisions fully address all their concerns, said another developing country official.
Under draft A, the parties to the Stockholm convention on POPs have agreed to include Endosulfan in Annex A of banned organic chemicals. Once the parties adopt the decision to include Endosulfan in the Annex A, they will have a period eleven years - in two installments - to phase out the use and ban of Endosulfan which is currently used in the cultivation of about 15-20 crops such as cotton, coffee and maize. The second draft deals with a work programme in which countries heavily dependent on the production and use of Endosulfan until now will be provided "safe and cost-effective alternatives that would include technical assistance as well as access to latest scientific know-how", the official said.
