KN DESK; 19, April 2013: Continuing the campaign to check and control sale and distribution of spurious pesticides, fertilizers and seeds among the farming community, a team of officers of Law Enforcement wing of Agriculture department under the supervision of Director Law Enforcement J&K Govt. M.S. Katoo raided various godowns of Pesticides dealers of Srinagar/Pulwama and Shopain districts.

 In this connection a godown of M/S Kashmir Pesticides Court Road Srinagar shifted to Batmaloo mandi was raided where,in addition to 80 litres of stop Alfamathrine 10% EC of Biostadt India Ltd, 80kgs 0f SPARSH M-45 (Mancozeb) 75%WP,100 liters of TRIGER of (Hexaconazole 5% EC ) and 116 kgs of CYGNET (Mycobutanil 10% WP) which were found without license; a huge quantity of200 kgs of BLUE DOT, 5 ½ kgs of SPOTLESS and 04 kgs of APEEL of a manufacturing company namely Acme Organic Pvt Ltd and marketted by Mahindra and Mahindra Ltd Agri Business, B.R.Agrotech Ltd and Marketting by Mahindra and Mahindra Ltd Agri Business, B.R.Agro Tech Ltd and Marketted by Mahindra and Mahindra Ltd Agri Business respectively were put on sale stop which has been illegally imported by the said company into the valley without registration of licensing authority. The enforcement agency has been put on alert to keep a close vigil on distribution of various products Marketted by Mahindra and Mahindra Ltd. (KNS)