One of the biggest challenges to our food security is the widespread use of Highly Hazardous
Pesticides in our food crops. These Pesticides pose severe acute as well as chronic harm to
human health and the environment. This report provides a first step in the direction of analysing
the synergistic effects of HHP use and ill effects in farming communities. The potential avenues
for future research stem from analysing how these HHPS affect our health and ecosystem. This
report is an effort to understand the statistics, and present-day regulations of HHPs in India,
where it exposes gaps in national approved uses of pesticides and recommendations for HHPs. A
major share of pesticides registered in India are HHPs and they are estimated to account for the
largest share because of their high usage and demand in the agriculture industry. This pesticide
use scenario eventually will lead to an unpropitious outcome. The fastest way to achieve higher
living standards for the nation’s workers and farmers is only through producing healthy viable
alternatives to these chemical pesticides and not through repeated use of potentially harmful
chemicals.
This report objects to function as a helping tool to penetrate every level of stakeholders and
policymakers to help in analysing the future of our farming sector, which does not compromise
our health and food safety.