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Fatalities reported (zone-wise data) in India
DETECTION OF HIDDEN

FILES AND FINDING OUT ITS

HIDDEN MECHANISM

CONCLUSION AND FUTURE SCOPE

The study shows a steady rise in the import, production, sales, and
incidences of poisoning involving pyrethroid pesticides in India.

The Covid pandemic served as a disruption to the study’s findings.

Therefore, the trend of production, sale, poisoning, and fatalities is

not clearly presented due to the disruption. But it is safe to say that

overall, there seems to be an increasing dependence by the farm-

ing community on pyrethroid pesticides. There is also an overall
increase in poisoning and fatality cases involving pyrethroid pesti-

cides in India.

The thought that pyrethroid pesticides only cause environmental

pollution is no more true if this trend continues. Pyrethroids have

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