Awareness comes from wisdom; Let us celebrate World Consumer Rights Day

India detains the unfortunate record in terms of diabetes patients’ number; however it is not necessarily due to your diets, sedentary lifestyle, or even from a genetic predisposition, but to the chemicals spread in the vegetables, fruits and rice you eat. Already, in India 28 pesticides were banned since 2014 for manufacturing, importing and using. Despite, the risk for our health and environment, some fruits still contains excessive dosage of chemicals.

Since a decade issue has been raised about divers pesticides as the Organophosphate (OP) which is provocating an elevation of glucose, and responsible for different type of diabetes. It took a while before the scientist community found the link between the pesticides and the highest diabetes representation amongst the farmers’ community. Finally, the Central Insecticides Board and Registration Committee banned the OP in 2015.

Previously, another pesticide has also disappeared from Indian farming lands: the Endosulfan responsible for foetus malformation and divers health problems. Despite of its ban in 2004 in the State of Kerala, the Kerala Pollution Control Board revealed the presence of the chemicals in the ground water. In 2011, the ban was extend throughout the country.

If the risk is not clearly expressed to the customers, farmers also continue to pour pesticides and chemical fertilizers without proper equipment. The grievous like situation appears lately in farmer’s families or through some cancers in the retirement age, without the possibility to link both events.

The one and only way to protect farmers as well as consumers is to come back to the natural way of farming. Bio-inputs or pest control can only keep the soil healthy without damaging the crops. 

Droughts are also increased by chemicals that destroyed micro-organism and increase the Ph level of the soil. As a result, the plant absorbs fewer nutrients from the land, and the outcome does not only contain chemicals residues but are also less nutritive and healthy.

For this World Consumer Rights Day, we would like to recall the strong path that organic farmers start by engaging themselves to a more sustainable farming. Thanks to them, we are happy to delivers healthy organic vegetables and fruits from the farm to the customer's plate.