Enjoying a short term consultant
job with a research project initiated in Nepal by the Centre for
Pesticide Suicide Prevention (CPSP) formed under the auspices of the
University of Edinburgh. Its aim is to identify the highly hazardous
pesticides (HHPs) currently responsible for the majority of pesticide
suicides in selected sites in Nepal.
Had
a wonderful opportunity to interact with a number of pesticide vendors
in Banke, Chitwan, Kavre and Kathmandu and to know about the pros and
cons of pesticides. Nepal government has banned until now 21 HHPs which
were very harmful to human health. There are still two more toxic
pesticides, namely: Zinc Phosphide and Aluminium Phosphide, which are
easily accessible and available in the pesticide shops and are being
used for committing suicide.
Hope
the government will ban these two toxic pesticides in near future which
will definitely help to reduce the number of pesticide suicide.
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