Empowering Farmers to get rid of Pesticide Poisoning

Posted on 3 December 2019

First MAPPP Annual meeting at Subhash Sharma Organic Farm, Tiwasa, Yavatmal Commemorating Bhopal Gas tragedy, No pesticide Use Day is observed all over the world on the 3rd December. The Annual meeting of MAPPP was organised on this day at Subhash Sharma’s Organic farm located in Yavatmal. This meeting, ‘Empowering Farmers to get rid of Pesticide Poisoning’ […]

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Education (CME) Workshop for Medical Professionals in Yavatmal Medical College

Posted on 28 February 2019

Workshop titled ‘International CME Workshop on Pesticide Poisoning in Rural Communities: Improving Medical Management’  was jointly organised  in Yavatmal Medical College on 28th February 2019 by Maharashtra Association of Pesticide Poisoned Persons (MAPPP), PAN India, Centre for Pesticide Suicide Prevention- UK, and Shri Vasantrao Naik Government Medical College, Yavatmal. Dean of the Medical college inaugurated the workshop.  More than […]

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Farming Community in Yavatmal Declares to stop pesticide menace on the World Soil Day and No Pesticide Use Week

Posted on 5 December 2018

‘Maharashtra Association of Pesticide Poisoned Persons’ (MAPPP) formed on the World Soil Day  and No Pesticide Use Week in Yavatmal in the Farmers Meeting on “Impact of Pesticides on Soil and Children of the Soil” On 5th December, 2018, commemorating World Soil Day, amidst observing ‘No Pesticide Use Week (3-10 December, 2018), scores of farmers came […]

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