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Pesticide panic takes root
News, Published on 31/01/2018
» Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha said he has instructed state agencies to find other agricultural chemicals to replace paraquat, a dangerous pesticide.
Weighing risks of herbicide
B Magazine, Suthon Sukphisit, Published on 15/07/2018
» Many stories have been told about people, despairing of life, taking the herbicide paraquat as a way out.
Pharmacy Council wants ban on 3 farm chemicals this year
Online Reporters, Published on 13/02/2019
» The Pharmacy Council has asked the national committee on hazardous substances to ban two herbicides, paraquat and glyphosate, and the pesticide chlorpyrifos before year's end in the interests of public safety.
Minister backs pesticide ban
News, Post Reporters, Published on 29/08/2018
» Deputy Agriculture and Cooperatives Minister Wiwat Salyakamthorn has thrown his support behind a total ban on three hazardous herbicides -- paraquat, glyphosate and chlorpyrifos.
Suit against BioThai thrown out
News, Post Reporters, Published on 16/12/2021
» The Criminal Court on Wednesday dismissed a petition against Witoon Lienchamroon, founder of BioThai, over accusations he defamed someone under the Computer Act in a debate over farm chemical bans in 2019.
Our chemical-free future
Asia focus, Tanyatorn Tongwaranan, Published on 27/08/2018
» When I think of my grandmother, I always think of her in the kitchen. Growing up as the happy recipient of her home-cooked meals, I sometimes would join her there as she passed along tidbits of her cooking wisdom.
Farmers rally for use of banned chemicals
News, Post Reporters, Published on 23/07/2020
» A group of about 30 farmers on Wednesday rallied in Bangkok, calling for the government to revise its ban on the use of paraquat and chlorpyrifos in agriculture.
Pressure builds for ban on herbicides
News, Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 17/05/2018
» Academic experts have urged the committee making decisions on the use of chemicals to ban the herbicides paraquat, glyphosate and chlorpyrifos.
Sugarcane leaves a bitter aftertaste
Oped, Published on 06/05/2020
» Two of the country's major environmental problems -- PM2.5 ultrafine dust and toxic contamination -- stem largely from sugarcane farming, which ironically receives a big chunk of state subsidies.
Stalling on chemical ban must end
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 07/10/2019
» Huge banners declaring support for a total ban of herbicides paraquat and glyphosate and pesticide chlorpyrifos have recently been erected at many state-run provincial hospitals, in what appears to be an escalated campaign by the Ministry of Public Health to warn people of the danger posed by the three toxic substances widely used among Thai farmers to kill weeds and insects.