Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs: It plans to adopt banning management measures for four highly toxic pesticides

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs released news that on December 29, 2022, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs held a national pesticide management work video conference to summarize and exchange pesticide management work in 2022, and study and deploy pesticide production supply assurance and supervision in 2023
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The meeting pointed out that the pesticide management work in 2022 has achieved good results
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Issued the "14th Five-Year Plan" National Pesticide Industry Development Plan; Stabilized pesticide production and supply, producing 1.
729 million tons of pesticides from January to November (100 tons); 4 new high-toxic pesticides were eliminated; By the end of December, a total of 45,000 pesticide registration certificates, 1,756 pesticide production licenses, and 344,000 pesticide business licenses had been issued; more than 3,600 pesticide sampling and monitoring samples at the ministerial level had been organized, and the pesticide quality testing pass rate had remained above 95%; Build 19 provincial-level pesticide risk monitoring centers and 258 grassroots monitoring sites
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The meeting requested that the pesticide management work be planned in 2023
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The first is to strengthen the guidance services of the pesticide industry, promote the full implementation of the pesticide industry development plan, and promote the transformation and upgrading of the pesticide industry and high-quality development
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Do a good job in ensuring the supply of pesticide production to ensure the stability
of agricultural production demand and market prices.
Highlight the production, storage and supply of pesticides in winter and spring, and ensure the spring prevention and control drug demand
for "three diseases and two worms" such as wheat strip rust, wheat gibberella, rape sclerotia, wheat aphid, and fall armyworm in corn meadows.
The second is to optimize pesticide administrative examination and approval services, optimize and improve registration and review rules, establish a pesticide registration information officer system, strengthen provincial registration preliminary examination guidance and registration information officer training, and optimize registration approval services
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Standardize pesticide production and operation license approval services, and do a good job in the renewal of license approval
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The third is to strengthen the supervision of the pesticide market, increase the intensity of product supervision and random inspection, adopt a combination of routine spot checks, special spot checks and key spot checks, implement linkage between inspection and crackdown, and link execution, and crack down on illegal acts
of manufacturing and selling fake and inferior pesticides.
Strengthen supervision and inspection of pesticide producers, operators, and Internet operators, and increase the intensity
of investigation and handling in accordance with law.
The fourth is to strengthen pesticide risk management and control, plan to adopt banning management measures for four highly toxic pesticides such as oxocar, aldicarb, carbofuran, and fendolcarb, and promote the designated operation, real-name purchase and traceability management
of highly toxic and other restricted pesticides.
The fifth is to improve the support capacity of pesticide management, enrich the team of pesticide management personnel, strengthen training and guidance, strengthen information means, revise pesticide supporting rules and regulations, further strengthen the guarantee of supporting conditions, and improve the level of
management ability.