Terrible Circumvention
A pesticide, decidedly bad for our environment, is being imported by local firms and sold to farmers without any caution. This they are doing taking advantage of there being no ban on the brand name of the pesticide. There is a ban on the genre it belongs to and that should have sufficed to keep it out of the country. Unfortunately, the generic name does not appear on the package of the toxic pesticide. So the customs would not prevent its import. What the importers have been doing has been very aptly dubbed by one of their numbers as moral crime. In fact, the crime committed is far more heinous and is very much cognizable by the law of the land. You are, quite beknown to you, selling something that is polluting land and water and killing fishes and other forms of life. This is a more dangerous crime than about all cognizable offences in the panel code. Ours is a small country, too small and overcrowded to hold its 125 million people. There are a myriad chances of this over-pressured land becoming absolutely unlivable if we do not care to become the best in the world about preserving our water and land, air and all forms of life, specially the plants. One big way that guard is being sabotaged is the totally irrational increase in our use of the chemical fertilisers and pesticides. These inputs spurt production over a small time-frame. But as years go by their magic wears away. In the mean time they had taken a heavy toll of the fertility of the land and life-giving purity of water and the insect and worm world but for which agricultural production is impossible.
The government must, indeed, adopt a firm policy of gradually but surely reducing imports of chemical fertilisers and pesticides.
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