Table 1 Timeline of national and state pesticide bans
Date | Territory | Pesticide banned | State bans |
|---|---|---|---|
1974 | National | parathion (ethyl parathion) | Â |
1989 | National | dibromochloropropane, pentachloronitrobenzene, toxaphene | Â |
1990 | National | endrin | Â |
1996 | National | aldrin, chlordane, heptachlor | Â |
2001 | National | aldicarb, chlorbenzilate, dieldrin, ethylene dibromide, maleic hydrazide, trichloroacetic acid | Â |
2005 | National | (dalapon, ferbam, formothion, nickel chloride, paradichlorobenzene, simazine, warfarin) | Â |
2005 | Kerala | Â | DDT, endosulfan |
Before 2007a | National | benzene hexachloride, calcium cyanide, copper acetoarsenite, ethyl mercury chloride, menazon, nitrofen, paraquat dimethyl sulphate, pentachlorophenol, phenyl mercury acetate, sodium methane arsonate, tetradifon | Â |
2011 | Kerala | Â | anilofos, atrazine, carbofuran, edifenphos, methoxy ethyl mercuric chloride, methyl parathion, monocrotophos, oxythioquinox, paraquat, phorate, profenofos, thiobencarb, triazophos, tricyclazole |
2011 | Karnataka | Â | [endosulfan] |
2011 | National | endosulfan | Â |
2007 to 2012a | National | chlorofenviphos, metoxuron | Â |
2013 | National | lindane | Â |
2014 | Sikkim | Â | all pesticides |
2014 | National | (sirmate) | Â |
2017 | Maharashtra | Â | [acephate, cypermethrin, diafenthiuron, fipronil, imidacloprid, monocrotophos, profenofos] |
2018 | Punjab | Â | alachlor, benfuracarb, bifenthrin, carbosulfan, chlorfenapyr, dazomet, dicofol, diflubenzuron, endosulfan, ethofenprox, fenitrothion, kasugamycin, metaldehyde, methomyl, monocrotophos, phorate, phosphamidon, thiophanate-methyl, triazophos, tricholorofon |
2018 | National | benomyl, carbaryl, diazinon, fenarimol, fenthion, linuron, methoxy ethyl mercuric chloride, methyl parathion, thiometon, tridemorph | Â |
2020 | National | alachlor, dichlorvos, phorate, phosphamidon, triazophos, trichlorfon | Â |