The Telangana government’s Department of Agriculture Cooperation and Family Welfare put restrictions on the sale of glyphosate on July 10, 2018, India’s most popular broad spectrum herbicide, in a bid to curb the illegal use of herbicide-tolerant BT cotton. Though the herbicide is recommended for use only in tea plantations and non-crop areas, it is used across India to kill weeds. Telangana authorities have indicated that even for use in non-crop areas, the dealers would have to get a recommendation slip from the agriculture office. Before this, Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra had put in similar restrictions. The states have the authority to do only this much as only the Centre can ban an agro-chemical. Efforts to ban this chemical, labelled carcinogenic, are on across the world. In 2014, Sri Lanka had banned it when a study linked it to chronic kidney disease.
— source downtoearth.org.in