Following are the general sustainable practices which can be adopted by the farm women to prevent health hazards and environment:
➢ Use of improved chulha/ smokeless chulha or clean fuel to avoid indoor air pollution to prevent respiratory lung diseases.
➢ Well ventilated rural kitchen will reduce indoor air pollution.
➢ Use of Ecofarming / Organic farming/ Ecofriendly technologies.
➢ Using degradable fertilizer like organic phosphate.
➢ Using biological control methods.
➢ Crop rotation with leguminous crop to increase fertility of soil.
➢ Addition of crop residues, animal manures. Green manuring, biofertilizer and biopesticides.
➢ On farming waste recycling.
➢ Non-chemical weed management.
➢ Integrated nutrient management for soil fertility and crop productivity.
➢ Adopt soil solarization method for killing pests.
➢ Problematic pesticides and herbicides should be banned.
➢ Cultivation of women’s knowledge is traditional alternative farming should be acknowledged.
➢ Govt. should have adequate legislation regarding use of chemicals in farming.
➢ Planting more trees and preserve forest to provide good CO2 sink which will reduce global warming.
➢ Phase out CFCs to protect ozone layer.
➢ Use of occupational clothing while working in agricultural field.
➢ Special trainings should be given to women to protect herself from hazardous situations while using the chemicals in the field.
Matter Courtesy: Dr. Ritu Singhvi, Professor, Dept. Of Family Resource Management, College of Home Science, Maharana Pratap University of Agriculture & Technology, Udaipur, Rajasthan.
Plz mention d devices which do not release CFC..
You know very well, that CFC is a cooling agent/refrigerant. Now-a-days CFCs free Refrigerators, Coolers and Water Coolers are coming in market. If you are purchasing new, then prefer CFC free appliance. In few brands, there is a coolant changing procedure, but it is not happening in India. CFC solvent is changed with CFC-free one. As consumers are getting aware day-by-day, like you….. this exchanging the solvent procedure will be available frequently in our country too, very soon.
please also see pritiagril@gmail.com ‘s comment on CFC free deodorants.
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We need to train rural women about these practices for higher adoption rate.
Body deodorants also contain CFC. Use that brands of deodorant which are labeled with “CFC free”.
yes… our very personal commodity of daily use…. thanks prity