Some 200 women working in agriculture held a protest march in Paarl, calling on European company Bayer to stop producing and exporting pesticides to South Africa. Scores of pesticide products that are banned from use in the European Union are being exported to and used in South Africa.
The protesters marched to the head office of Bayer, a German pharmaceutical and biotechnology company. The march was organized by the Women on Farms Project (WFP), an organization working with women farm workers and farm dwellers in the Western Cape.
A WFP memorandum demands Bayer immediately end production and exports of pesticides currently banned in the EU but sold to South Africa and other developing countries. The memorandum, handed over at Bayer’s office gate to a company representative, stated there are at least 54 such products.
Source: groundup.org.za
