so naturally, all the pests. >> dr. kumar calls it a mass tragedy. at least 22 villages in kerala are affected, with more than 6000 people terminally ill. hundreds have already died. and the environment has been so contaminated that it might well take generations to recover. the chemical has been banned in europe since 2005, but in india only since 2011. on the grounds of the state plant breeding institute, remaining stockpiles of some one thousand liters are poured into new containers. at least now, the workers are wearing hazmat suits and masks. the workers on the plantations that were sprayed had no such protection. people here tell horror stories of that time. >> there's a 1090 tons of endosulfan lying here. in 2013, when endosulfan is banned in the country by supreme court, even the license for production was ceased. so it was allowed to be exported by supreme court. >> court files show that much of it went to bangladesh, ecuador, argentina and brazil. india has stored enough base materials to manufacture four million more liters of endosulfan.