Understanding Carcinogens. Substance considered/suspected to be causing cancers. ■ IARC (International Agency for Research on Cancer) of the WHO maintains different groups of carcinogens based on current scientific evidence for carcinogenicity. The list includes;...
India – Population growth vs Agri. production growth Indian agriculture is no more population driven; it is consumption driven. Indian farmers are multi-skilled, and our small farms are multifunctional. India ranks second largest in total agricultural production. From...
Doubling farmers income requires increasing consumption of what is produced To double Indian farmers income marketing Indian agricultural commodities must receive priority attention. Here is a live example and a thought...
Pepper. Brazil beats India The name pepper comes from Sanskrit pippali, meaning berry. Vasco de Gama discovered sea-spice route to India in 1498 mainly to procure pepper. Vietnam began cultivation of pepper only in 1990s , but in 2003 overtook India as the...
Is there cancer catastrophe in India? We have all read, rather repeatedly, in the media that there is a cancer catastrophe in India especially in Punjab on account of intensive agriculture that requires use of chemical pesticides and fertilizers. This is a...
Carcinogens. What does WHO listing show? International Agency for Research on Cancer (an organ of WHO) lists certain natural products, foods and chemicals as having cancer causing potential. What most do not know is that the list also includes the following: Alcohol...
