In an asinine move not backed by science or reason, India is moving to restrict the use of herbicide glyphosate potentially jeopardizing its agricultural production, losing out in its environmental benefits https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/news/government-moves-to-restrict-use-of-glyphosate/article32029918.ece

Alternatives to glyphosate: 1. Drudgery of handpicking the weeds on a farm

Alternatives to glyphosate: 2. Literally burning the weeds on a farm using propane flame throwers like this. Think of the soil microbes, beneficial insects

Alternatives to glyphosate: 3. ‘Like using a bleach instead of table salt’. Using more toxic herbicides cauding greater harm to human health, and damage to the biodiversity.

https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/pi170 

If glyphosate is banned, get ready for greater invasion by invasive weeds like kudzu and water hyacinth. Think of the environment!

If glyphosate is banned, farmers will start tilling the soil again, missing out on conservation tillage that has increasingly help conserve soil, water and biodiversity

Tilling soil is the most destructive practice in farming. Herbicide-tolerant crops promotes zero tillage, greatest friend to the environment. City-dwelling hippy activists & misguided politicians do not understand this, scream for the ban of glyphosate

https://link.medium.com/TkL39lNS37 

Research repeatedly shows that precision farming with a minuscule use of extremely safe molecules like glyphosate (using a coffee cup size of that chemical per football field sized farm) promotes biodiversity within the farm, ensures soul health

A minuscule use of glyphosate is the core of a new tech developed by an Indian farmer friend of mine, no-till system for growing crops like rice slashing labor costs by half & doubling the crop yields. Increasingly embraced by Indian farmers now.

http://indianperiodical.com/2016/07/person-of-the-week-chandrashekhar-bhadsavle/