Paraquat camouflages low-price diquat and quickly reappears on the market

Recently, the Agricultural Law Enforcement Brigade of the Agriculture Bureau of Mianyang City of Sichuan Province and the Agricultural Law Enforcement Brigade of the Agriculture Bureau of Chengdu City, in the process of agricultural law enforcement, spot checks from the retail market and found that among the formulations of the registration certificate of "20% Diquat fast water agent", 4 companies "Nominal" product of China, "the active ingredient Diquat was not detected", but "the pesticide paraquat was not marked" and other unqualified indicators were detected
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In other words, there are four companies that sell the prohibited ingredient paraquat by arranging Diquat
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What's more, in Yunnan and Guangdong and other places, many retail stores continue to sell paraquat water, but they either sell them in small quantities or do not dare to put them on the counter publicly, but if they are familiar with each other Farmers need to take them directly from the warehouse
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According to Announcement No.
1145, paraquat aqua has been clearly listed as a banned pesticide and will be officially delisted on July 1, 2016
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Due to the high risk of directly selling paraquat aqua, many paraquat aquas have changed and become diquat and will soon be openly sold on the market
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In August last year, the Shandong Provincial Pesticide Inspection Institute issued an emergency notice requesting the province to strengthen the supervision of the paraquat market, and pointed out that during the pesticide market inspection, they found that the pesticide paraquat was detected in some Diquat samples
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Mainly include: 200g/L diquat fast water agent, 22.
5% of paraquat detected; 200g/L diquat fast water agent, detected paraquat content of 9.
4%; 200g/L diquat fast water agent, detection It was found that it was actually 20% paraquat water
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The person in charge of the domestic manufacturer of Diquat said that the production cost of Diquat is relatively high.
The price of a ton of mother liquor is 58,000 to 60,000 yuan.
The production cost of 20% Diquat preparations widely sold in the market is 2.
9~3.
Ten thousand yuan/ton, plus internal and external packaging, additives, water and electricity, labor and equipment depreciation in the later period, the ex-factory price of 20% Diquat is close to 40,000 yuan/ton
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"The normal retail price should be above 55 yuan/kg
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Nowadays, many 20% of Diquat’s retail prices in the market are less than 35 yuan/kg.
It can almost be concluded that paraquat water is added, or even paraquat water.
Otherwise, it is impossible to sell at such a low price
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" The Shandong Provincial Pesticide Inspection Institute once pointed out in the notice that there are four reasons why so many paraquat liquids are being sold as diquat.

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First, in order to make profits, companies that produce paraquat for export will replace the paraquat produced for export with diquat and sell it on the domestic market
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The second is that the paraquat that was not sold before July 1 was recalled by the paraquat manufacturer, and then replaced with Diquat and packaged and sold again on the market
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Third, companies that produce diquat add paraquat to their products to reduce costs and improve control efficiency
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Fourth, unlicensed enterprises illegally produce fake and inferior enemy grasses, use fakes to chase real ones, and pursue high profits
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"The effects of diquat and paraquat are very similar, but diquat is not as effective as paraquat.
The price is much higher, and the cost for farmers is nearly double the
use of paraquat.
Diquat is sold in a bottle at a low price, and the effect is good.
Farmers will definitely pay the bill
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" An industry source said
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Set up Diquat’s certificates, sell paraquat ingredients, add hidden ingredients at will, low quality and low price, use "cheap" as bait, and "low price" as a selling point to disrupt the market and confuse farmers.
According to the new pesticide management regulations, Selling banned pesticides is an act of selling fakes
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In addition, farmers who do not know the truth, such as mistaking the disguised paraquat, are incurable and the consequences are disastrous
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In this regard, some local agricultural departments have launched special rectifications
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For example, the Chengdu Municipal Agricultural Comprehensive Law Enforcement Corps of Sichuan Province recently issued the "Notice on the Investigation of Fake Pesticides of Dicao Kuai Water Agent", organizing law enforcement officers at the city and county levels to conduct a comprehensive investigation of the pesticide business stores in the jurisdiction and dispatched law enforcement.
There were more than 600 personnel, more than 8,000 copies of publicity materials were distributed, 1,523 bottles of Diquat pesticides illegally added with banned pesticide paraquat were seized, 5 cases were filed for investigation, and the cases of prohibited pesticides were transferred to the public security department in accordance with the law
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In the next step, the city's comprehensive agricultural law enforcement agency will combine the city's agricultural input supervision and sampling work, and continue to carry out special rectification actions to combat illegal herbicide additions within the city
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