Are our farmer brothers aware of the long term ill effects of using the pesticides and insecticides.

I wonder if the agriculture department is doing a good job in keeping farmers aware and checking the validity of these chemicals?

One such chemical is endosulfan. This article shows it's horrors effecting hundreds of people: http://www.rediff.com/news/slide-sho...htm?print=true

PS: What an irony, the article is produced by British photographers and not Indians.