{"id":7195,"date":"2022-11-02T04:12:04","date_gmt":"2022-11-01T22:42:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=7195"},"modified":"2025-03-28T18:47:19","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T13:17:19","slug":"glyphosate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/glyphosate\/","title":{"rendered":"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.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Application:<\/strong><\/p>\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>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<p><strong>Consequences:<\/strong><\/p>\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<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Source :\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.downtoearth.org.in\/news\/agriculture\/why-india-should-ban-not-just-restrict-use-of-dangerous-weedicide-glyphosate-85709\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Down to Earth<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Glyphosate is a non-selective systemic herbicide that is applied directly to plant foliage<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":7196,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7195","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\/7195","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=7195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}