The agricultural sector needs to work with farmers to ensure the safety of pesticide use

In the latest revision of the pesticide management regulations, there are two clearly stipulations that the responsibility of the agricultural department of the government at or above the county level for strengthening pesticide use guidance services and pesticide accidents should be reported to the agricultural department in a timely manner.
This means that the agricultural department needs to cooperate with farmers in the next stage.
Work together to ensure the safety of pesticide use
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The new "Regulations" clarify the responsibilities of agricultural departments of governments at or above the county level to strengthen pesticide use guidance services
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Strengthen guidance services
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Establish and improve the safe and rational use of pesticides, organize the promotion of scientific pesticide use technology, and strengthen technical guidance
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It is necessary to promote organic and green agricultural products, and implement standardized production in export bases; implement a two-dimensional code and bar code system for labeling identifiable information on agricultural products, so that the use of pesticides can be recorded, inquired, and traceable
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Free technical training
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The competent agricultural department of the county government should organize pesticide verification, plant protection, and agricultural technology extension agencies, and use farmer training programs to provide free technical training to pesticide users
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Support professional use
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The competent agricultural department of the people's government at the county level shall encourage and support the establishment of specialized disease and insect pest control service organizations, and provide guidance, standardization and management for specialized disease and insect pest control and restricted pesticide dispensing and use, so as to improve the level of disease and insect pest control
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To restrict the use of pesticides, the measures of “unified purchase, unified storage, unified use, unified waste recycling, specialized prevention and control, unified prevention and control, and financial subsidies” can be promoted, so that farmers are not exposed to high-risk pesticides
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Implement a reduction plan
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The people's government at the county level shall formulate and organize the implementation of the pesticide reduction plan in its administrative area; encourage and support pesticide users who implement the pesticide reduction plan and voluntarily reduce the use of pesticides
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Promote measures such as biological control, physical control, and advanced pesticide application equipment, and promote high-efficiency new pesticide application machinery
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Instruct pesticide users to use pesticides in a planned rotation to reduce the resistance of diseases, insects, weeds, rodents and other harmful organisms that harm agriculture and forestry
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Pesticide accidents must be reported to the agricultural department in time for illegal use of pesticides, depending on the circumstances, and corresponding civil liabilities must be borne
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If the pesticide residues of the agricultural products produced and sold exceed the standard, or the use of restricted pesticides causes serious harm to human health or other serious circumstances after the consumption of the agricultural products, the medical expenses and lost work expenses incurred shall be compensated
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Also bear the costs of destroying contaminated agricultural products and soil disinfection
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In addition, the agricultural sector should take responsibility for handling pesticide accidents
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The "Regulations" stipulate: "In the event of a pesticide use accident, pesticide users, pesticide manufacturers, pesticide operators and other relevant personnel shall report to the local agricultural authority in a timely manner
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The agricultural authority that receives the report shall take immediate measures to prevent the accident from spreading.
At the same time, relevant departments are notified to take corresponding measures
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If pesticide poisoning accidents are caused, the competent agricultural departments and public security organs shall organize investigations and treatments in accordance with their duties and powers.
The competent health departments shall immediately organize medical treatment for the injured persons in accordance with relevant national regulations; cause environmental pollution accidents The environmental protection and other relevant departments shall organize investigations and treatments in accordance with the law; the food, agriculture and other departments shall organize technical appraisal and investigation and treatment of the accidents caused by the use of grain storage chemicals and crop phytotoxicity
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” It can be seen that the current technical appraisal opinions of the agricultural departments , Can be used as the legal basis for judicial judgment
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First of all, the agricultural sector cannot slack off
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The occurrence of pesticide accidents is the focus of contradictions.
It is easy to cause social instability and requires high technical appraisal.
Therefore, agricultural departments must have specialized personnel, testing equipment, and handling procedures to deal with accidents in a fair, fair, open and scientific manner.

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Secondly, pesticide users must protect their rights
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This is because pesticide users do not know that highly toxic pesticides and other ingredients are added to pesticides.
For example, adding paraquat to diquat pesticides may cause poisoning and phytotoxicity
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In the past, if poisoning or phytotoxicity occurred, the pesticide user went to the distributor, and the distributor did not admit it, and it would be fine, or even if the distributor gave a small amount of money privately.

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Now it is obligated to report pesticide accidents to the agricultural department in a timely manner, and it is fair to pesticide users to deal with it by the agricultural department
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