On the drizzling morning of April 17, 2014, the First Training Meeting on Using Pesticide Safely and Scientifically & Launching Ceremony of CCPIA Committee for Using Pesticides Safely and Scientifically & Launching Ceremony of SinoChem Global Agrochemical Greening Activity was officially held in Nanjing, marking a historical step in the Chinese pesticide industry.
Sun Shubao, Chairman of CCPIA, pointed out in his opening speech that pesticide use is the most important aspect in the pesticide industry, and farmers' knowledge of safe and scientific use of pesticides directly relate to the control effect of pesticides on crop diseases, the health of the person applying the pesticides, the quality and safety of agricultural products. Under the current domestic situation, it is an urgent task to initiate and establish the Committee for Using Pesticides Safely and Scientifically (the "Committee'), and it is also a duty of the CCPIA and the enterprises in the industry to jointly carry out this work.
Shao Zhenrun, Director of National Agricultural Technology Extension Service Center ("NATESC'), expressed his affirmation and support of the establishment of the Committee. He pointed out that, under the current negative domestic pesticide use situation, to realize safe and scientific use of pesticides, there were eight countermeasures: to promote experiment and demonstration, to strengthen the demonstration of new equipment for crop protection, to pay attention to centralized, specialized prevention and control, to make great efforts to the training and guidance of safe and scientific use of pesticides, to explore technology of waste disposal, to make great efforts to the reform and upgrading of distribution and marketing, to promote pesticide research and development and make progress in management, and to make great efforts to the formation of laws and regulations on crop protection and pesticides. Mr. Shao indicated that NATESC will cooperate with CCPIA to make joint efforts for a new chapter of safe and scientific use of pesticides. Li Zhonghua, Secretary General of CCPIA, read out the responsibility and mission of the Committee.
SinoChem Global Agrochemical Greening Activity was also launched the same day. With this great opportunity, Zhang Xiaobo, Deputy General Manager of SinoChem, said that SinoChem will spare no effort to promote activities on safe and scientific use of pesticides and make use of its advantages to make contributions to the health development of the pesticide industry together with the initiating units.
Mr. Raghavan Sampathkumar, Manager of CropLife Asia, Mr. Ou, Director of the Technical Department of Syngenta (China) Investment Co., Ltd., and Professor Jiang Bin of Shenyang Research Institute of Chemical Industry, who are responsible for training member units on safe and scientific use of pesticides, shared their experiences in safe and scientific use of pesticides from global and national perspectives and from different aspects such as management and technology, and gave suggestions on the future development of the Committee.
CCPIA issued all 37 membership certificates to the member units.
Epilogue:
As Steve Jobs once said, people don't know what they want until you show it to them. The establishment of the Committee for Using Pesticides Safely and Scientifically brings the opportunity to guide customer needs. Only the enterprises with a sense of responsibility, a sense of mission and foresight and sagacity can first recognize the importance of social responsibility and care and join in at the right moment. In this great era and this spring full of hope, the establishment of the Safe and Scientific Pesticide Use Committee will undoubtedly become an important milestone in the development history of the Chinese pesticide industry. With a common vision, let's wait and see what new chapters the Safe and Scientific Pesticide Use Committee will bring in the future.