{"id":58942,"date":"2016-09-20T22:39:35","date_gmt":"2016-09-21T04:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=58942"},"modified":"2016-09-20T15:35:06","modified_gmt":"2016-09-20T22:35:06","slug":"sri-lanka-to-relax-glyphosate-weedicide-ban-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2016\/09\/20\/sri-lanka-to-relax-glyphosate-weedicide-ban-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka to relax glyphosate weedicide ban: report"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy ECONOMYNEXT <\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>&#8211; A ban on glyphosate, a widely used weedicide, imposed on the belief that it may contribute to chronic kidney disease will be relaxed to allow the tea farming sector to use it, a report said.<\/p>\n<p>Plantations Minister Navin Dissanayake had told Sri Lanka&#8217;s Planters&#8217; Association, a groping of senior managers of tea farms, that the ban will be relaxed, The Sunday Times newspaper reported.<\/p>\n<p>The tea sector will be allowed to import glysophate, following discussions with President Maithripala, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe and related parties, the report said.<\/p>\n<p>Sri Lanka&#8217;s President Maithripala Sirisena banned the import of glysophate, after a theory was put forward that it was responsible for chronic kidney disease in mostly rice growing areas in the country.<\/p>\n<p>However no animal studies were done to prove the theory, which the researchers said was because Sri Lanka was a country where most were followers of Bhuddism.<\/p>\n<p>There have been no reports of tea workers being affected by kidney disease in a large scale in Sri Lanka yet. Factors including heat stress, dehydration in combination with mis-use of agricultural chemicals have been linked to the disease in other countries.<\/p>\n<p>Similar chronic kidney diseases whose origin remains a mystery have cropped up in Andra Pradesh, some Central American countries and Egypt.<\/p>\n<p>A World Health Organization arm that looks at cancer has said in 2015 that glysophate was<a href=\"http:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/widely-used-herbicide-linked-to-cancer\/\">probably carcinogenic<\/a> (category 2B substance) to humans, along with malathion which is sprayed in households in Sri Lanka to kill mosquitoes, following an animal study which found links, though other studies <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2016\/may\/16\/glyphosate-unlikely-to-pose-risk-to-humans-unwho-study-says\">have given mixed results<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>However glysophate has become widely used. (Colombo\/Sept19\/2016 &#8211; Update II)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy ECONOMYNEXT &#8211; A ban on glyphosate, a widely used weedicide, imposed on the belief that it may contribute to chronic kidney disease will be relaxed to allow the tea farming sector to use it, a report said. Plantations Minister Navin Dissanayake had told Sri Lanka&#8217;s Planters&#8217; Association, a groping of senior managers of tea [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58942\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}