Guangzhou, Guangdong -- (SBWIRE) -- 07/19/2011 -- Ministry of Agriculture (MOA) held a press conference on July 5, 2011, disclosing that it will ban 10 more highly toxic pesticides in 2011 together with other four ministries in China, according to the July issue of Crop Protection China News.
According to MOA, although China has been banning highly toxic pesticides in these years, there are still 22 highly toxic pesticides, mostly insecticides, allowed to be produced, sold and used in China. Except the 10 highly toxic pesticides that were promised by MOA to be banned in 2011, the other 12 highly toxic pesticides will be gradually banned in the forthcoming years.
Aiming to safeguard food safety and better manage highly toxic pesticides, MOA together with other related ministries drafted a highly toxic pesticides management policy in the past few months, namely the Program for the Elimination and Prohibition of Highly Toxic Pesticides. And so far the policy has been submitted to the State Council for approval. The implementation date of the policy is still not clear.
Although the policy of the Program for the Elimination and Prohibition of Highly Toxic Pesticides (the Program) is still waiting for approval, MOA has already released a No.1586 announcement which is the one of the implementation measures of the Programme and has carried out some accurate measures on June 15, 2011.
Firstly, government stops accepting new field test applications, registration applications and production license applications of the 22 highly toxic pesticides, such as fenamiphos, terbufos, methidathion, phorate, etc., since the date of the announcement.
Secondly, since the date of the announcement, the government began revoking the registration of omethoate and isocarbophos on citrus, the registration of methomyl on citurs, apple, tea and brassicaceous vegetable, the registration of cadusafos on citrus and cucumber, the registration of endosulfan on apple and tea, the registration of bromomethane on strawberry and cucumber.
Thirdly, the government decided to revoke the registration licenses, production licenses and stopping the production of the 10 highly toxic pesticides that to be banned in 2011 since 31 Oct. 2011.
MOA also declared that the prohibition date of the remaining 12 highly toxic pesticides will depend on whether there are enough amount of alternative pesticides which are highly efficient and lowly toxic.
With China's growing attention to environmental reservation as well as more and more new substitutive pesticides coming into market, Chinese government has attached importance to the issue and has accelerated its step in withdrawal of highly toxic pesticides in China. Since 1980s, China has continuously banned 23 highly toxic pesticides and limited the use of 19 pesticides on vegetables and fruits.
According to Ministry of Agriculture, so far there are 400 pesticide enterprises and about 900 kinds of products in China involved in the production of the 22 highly toxic pesticides and the capacity of these pesticides has reached around 104,000t/a in China. The annual output of them reached 50,000t/a in 2010, accounting for 2.5% of the total output of pesticides in this year.
On the other side, the prohibition of highly toxic pesticides will definitely provide a good chance for the development of biological pesticides in China. Actually, MOA has already started to draft the policy of encouraging pesticides players to conduct the R&D of biological pesticides, such as setting pilot projects of biological pesticide subsidies in Shanghai City, Shandong Province, etc. As the new policy's crackdown on highly toxic pesticides, it is expected that good prospect of biological pesticides will be expected in the coming years.
Source: Crop Protection China News 1113
http://www.cnchemicals.com/Newsletter/NewsletterDetail_16.html
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China to ban 10 more highly toxic pesticides in 2011
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Lianhe Technology sets up a new subsidiary
Jiangsu Lanfeng receives relocation compensation from government
Sino-Agri enhances corporation with foreign counterparts
Noposion gains subsidy for resin-based solvent research
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