{"id":28853,"date":"2024-12-19T07:53:05","date_gmt":"2024-12-19T02:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=28853"},"modified":"2025-10-11T11:23:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T05:53:15","slug":"kisan-kavach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/kisan-kavach\/","title":{"rendered":"Kisan kavach"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Kisan kavach:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a first-of-its-kind <strong>anti-pesticide bodysuit<\/strong> designed to protect farmers from the harmful effects of pesticide exposure.<\/li>\n<li>The suit is intended to protect farm labourers from imbibing the pesticides they spray. Several of the common pesticides are potential neurotoxins and detrimental to health.<\/li>\n<li>It is developed by the <a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/upsc-exam\/biotechnology\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Biotechnology<\/strong><\/a><strong> Research and Innovation Council (BRIC-inStem), Bangalore<\/strong>, in collaboration with Sepio Health Pvt. Ltd.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Features<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>The kit consists of a trouser, pullover, and a face-cover <strong>made of \u2018oxime fabric\u2019<\/strong> that can chemically breakdown any of the common pesticides that get sprayed onto cloth or body during spraying operations.<\/li>\n<li>This prevents chemicals from leaching into the skin. The price per kit is \u20b94,000.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Working:<\/strong> This Kisan Kavach fabric can deactivate pesticides upon contact through <strong>nucleophilic mediated hydrolysis,<\/strong> thereby preventing pesticide-induced toxicity and lethality.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The kit retained its potency in a wide temperature range, under UV-light exposure and was protective even after a 150 washes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is Hydrolysis?<\/h3>\n<p>It is a chemical reaction in which a chemical compound is broken down by reaction with water.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>News: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/scientists-develop-kisan-kavach-to-shield-farmers-from-pesticide-sprays\/article68996654.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Scientists develop \u2018kisan kavach\u2019 to shield farmers from pesticide sprays<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kisan kavach  is a first-of-its-kind anti-pesticide bodysuit designed to protect farmers from the harmful effects of pesticide exposure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":28854,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-28853","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}