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Sep 2, 2026
Rajini VaidyanathanHOST
Pesticide poisoning has been linked to a wide range of serious health effects, including cancer, Parkinson's, and reproductive disorders.
Rajini VaidyanathanHOST
Jeyakumar Chellatan, the executive director of Pesticide Action Network India, which commissioned the research, and he works with thousands of farmers across the south and west of India.
Rajini VaidyanathanHOST
Many grow the pesticide intensive crops, cardamom or cotton.
Rajini VaidyanathanHOST
I asked him more about the research.
Jeyakumar ChellatanGUEST
And in areas where we are working, we have a good news that there is also government of India policy of transition to natural farming, and we are seeing a large number of farmers moving more to sprays like Beauveria bassiana, which is a fungal spray to prevent stem borers in cardamom.
Jeyakumar ChellatanGUEST
So you see a large number of people moving more towards biocontrol agents, biocontrol sprays, so that they can move away with the toxic chemical sprays.
Rajini VaidyanathanHOST
That's Jeyakumar Chellatan of the Pesticide Action Network, speaking to me earlier from Kerala in India.
Rajini VaidyanathanHOST
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Stephen MethvenHOST
How could these inorganic compounds sprayed on my food impact me or my family or my kids? But what we think less about, or at least I can admit I think what I've thought less about until today, are the farmers who have to use them.
Stephen MethvenHOST
A new report released today and commissioned by the Pesticide Action Network reveals that half the world's farmers are poisoned by pesticides each year, with 11,000 of them killed annually.
Stephen MethvenHOST
Most of those fatalities, 60% of them, occur in India.
Stephen MethvenHOST
The Guardian has reported on these details from that study.
Stephen MethvenHOST
Using publicly available data from 2006 to 2023, the study, which was commissioned by Pesticide Action Network, found there to be an estimated 402 to 433 million cases of unintentional acute pesticide poisoning of farmers and farm workers every year.
Stephen MethvenHOST
Those are huge, huge numbers, vast numbers of people being affected by the toxicity of these pesticides.
Stephen MethvenHOST
Earlier today, I was joined from Kerala by Jayakumar Chaliton, a director of the Pesticide Action Network in India.
Stephen MethvenHOST
I began by asking him which areas of the world are most affected by pesticide poisoning.