INGLES III

TUTORA

PAULA JOVANNA PACHON HAMON

CARVAJAL RIAÑO TANIA ALEXANDRA ID: 384396

CORPORACIÓN UNIVERSITARIA MINUTO DE DIOS – UNIMINUTO

FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS ADMINISTRATIVAS SEDE SUR

ADMINISTRACIÓN EN SALUD OCUPACIONAL

BOGOTÁ, 2018
Cohesion:

Pesticide suicide

The suicide of Samala Mallaiah in the town of Nagara made the headlines of the
media. He owned an acre of land, leased two more and grew cotton in all three.
After losing the first year, he leased even more land in an attempt to recover. Faced
with falling prices, rising debts and pest attacks, harakiri committed. "Cotton has
given us broken dreams," said an old farmer in the town of Nagara.

Up to 60,000 small farmers in the Andhra Pradesh region of southern India have
begun to grow cotton instead of food crops. About 20 of them have recently
committed suicide by eating lethal doses of pesticides

According to the Ministry of Agriculture, losses and destruction of crops in Andhra

Pradesh arose from the repeated application of excessive amounts of chemicals, a
practice actively encouraged by pesticide traders.

Almost half of the pesticides used in India are used to protect cotton, the most
important commercial crop in the country. However, pests have shown greater
immunity to a variety of pesticides. Last year there were large crop losses due to
leaf curl, which is caused by the dreaded whitefly. This unspeakable and milky
white fly sucks the sap of the cotton leaves, making them curl and dry. The fly
struck first in Pakistan and northwestern India. Then he turned south.