CCM: Highly toxic pesticides banned: opportunity for pesticide manufacturers 10-11-2016

Summary: It is an inevitable trend that highly toxic pesticide would be eliminated step by step, and to research its substitutes will be the focus work of pesticide manufacturers. They should pay more attention to the market space after high toxic pesticides are banned from using, and grasp the opportunity to promote the application and R&D of high toxic pesticide substitutes.


 

Source: Internet


Staring from 1 Oct., 2015, the newly revised Food Safety Law of People’s Republic of China would be put into effect officially. The law stipulates a strict management on the use of pesticides, and highly toxic and hypertoxic pesticides are forbidden from being using on vegetables, fruits, tea and Chinese herbs. The implementation of this law indicates that it is conducive to speeding up the elimination of highly toxic pesticides. It is inevitable that highly toxic pesticides would be banned. Pesticide manufacturers should pay attention to the impact of this law and grasp the opportunity to seize more market share.

 

The usage of highly toxic pesticides forbidden exerts impacts on pesticide industry:

 

  • Lowly toxic and highly efficient alternatives could get more market share.
  • Pesticide manufacturers will be encouraged to adjust their product structures.
  • Some highly toxic pesticide manufacturers would be eliminated from the market, especially the small-sized enterprises which are backward in production technology and management.
  • It will be beneficial for the consolidation and reorganization of whole pesticide industry and promote the merger and acquisition of enterprises.
  • It will reduce the number of agricultural production accidents brought about by highly toxic pesticides and avoid misunderstanding on pesticide industry. It will also protect people’s health and protect the ecological environment.
  • It will support the promotion and development of lowly toxic pesticides and biological pesticides, especially providing a broad market for the application of biological pesticides.

 

It is noted that the highly toxic pesticide only account for less than 2% of the total consumption of pesticide, at present. Besides, 12 highly toxic pesticides are still being use (not including fruits, vegetables, tea trees and Chinese herbs). They are methidathion, phorate, isofenphos-methyl,carbofuran, ethoprophos, aldicarb, aluminium phosphide, omethoate, isocarbophos, endosulfan, methyl bromide and methomyl.

 

Industry insiders hold that the key of replacing highly toxic pesticides lies in its efficacy rather than cost. It is still impossible to ban the usage of highly toxic pesticides because no ideal products with high efficiency have been found to replace them.

 

It is still necessary to use them and it would be unrealistic to ban them completely. In fact, only highly toxic pesticides could control and kill some pests. If we ban them completely, the negative effects would be huge and the yield of crops would be reduced or some crops even have no harvest.


 


Pesticide manufacturers should make efforts in the following aspects in order to grasp the opportunity.

 

1. They should reduce the impact of irreplaceable highly toxic pesticide on the environment and prolong its life circle. They could adjust the formulation type of some highly toxic pesticide, for example, highly toxic organophosphorus pesticides can be used as seed dressing to protect crop seeds.

2. They should work hard to R&D ideal substitutes. Though it would cost much time and money to develop new varieties, the returns would be huge once it succeeded.

3. They could improve production technology and management on the production lines of irreplaceable highly toxic pesticides.

4. They should actively promote lowly toxic pesticide and biological pesticides. More importantly, they should enhance farmer’s understanding on the value and benefit of biological pesticides and improve biological pesticide’s market space.

5. They should fulfill their social responsibility, giving more guidance to farmers in application method of not banned highly toxic pesticides, so as to let farmers use them in the right time and in a proper way, thus accidents may be avoided.

 

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