{"id":5300,"date":"2022-12-17T06:36:14","date_gmt":"2022-12-17T01:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=5300"},"modified":"2025-03-27T05:30:30","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T00:00:30","slug":"what-is-glyphosate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-glyphosate\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Glyphosate?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Glyphosate:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Glyphosate is a widely used herbicide that can kill certain weeds and grasses.<\/li>\n<li>Glyphosate works by blocking an enzyme essential for plant growth.<\/li>\n<li><strong>First developed in 1970,<\/strong> glyphosate is scientifically N-(phosphonomethyl) glycine under the IUPAC system of nomenclature.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Application:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>In India, glyphosate use was approved only for tea crop and non-crop areas for control of weeds.\n<ul>\n<li>Assam, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu and Kerala are the major tea plantation states in India.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>In India it goes by various brand names, including<strong> Roundup, Glycel, and Brake.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>But glyphosate consumption is higher in states that do not have tea crops.<\/li>\n<li>It is being widely and indiscriminately used in paddy fields by farmers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Consequences:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>The surface casting activity of vertically burrowing earthworms almost ceased after three weeks and reproduction of soil dwellers reduced by 56 per cent within three months after herbicide application.<\/li>\n<li>There are long-term negative consequences for honey bee navigation, contamination of water bodies and serious health hazards.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What are herbicides?<\/h3>\n<p>Herbicides are chemicals used to manipulate or control undesirable vegetation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/PressReleseDetail.aspx?PRID=1884235\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">PIB<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Glyphosate is a widely used herbicide that can kill certain weeds and grasses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":5301,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5300","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\/5300","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=5300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}