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Officials will deny the link to industry and green revolution; but farmers are encouraged to use

excessive pesticides instead of farming organically. Crops that are not conducive to the soil and

water are being produced by farmers who wear no protective layer while spraying toxic

chemicals. Villagers use empty containers of pesticides for storing of most of the food items, still

we treat the rise in cases of cancer as a medical mystery, asked Umendra Dutta of Kheti Virasat

Mission (KVM). Not just cancer, the mindless toxic farming and industrial pollution has led tohigh rates of spontaneous abortions, cancer, reproductive aliments, genetic deformities, anaemia,

diarrhoea, vomiting, fluorosis and a host of skin ailments including rashes and boils, he added.

Some people came and took our blood samples, vegetables and milk samples; but no one told us

what is wrong. Poor farmers have to go through treatment that they can barely afford, young

couples are migrating so that their children are not affected, saida 37-year-old woman, in

Gayana, 15 km from here, whose son and daughter-in-law moved to Hoshiarpur after she lost her

husband to throat cancer and her nephew to stomach cancer .