The 12 kinds of highly toxic pesticides that China is using will speed up the phase-out process according to the risk and the production and use of substitute products, and strive to be totally banned within 5 years in order to reduce the quality and safety risks of agricultural products.

           The reporter learned from the Ministry of Agriculture on the 4th that this year, the Ministry of Agriculture issued a public notice on the two highly toxic pesticides for endosulfan and methyl bromide, and will be completely banned in 2019. In the meantime, aldicarb, phorate and isocarbophos will be withdrawn in 2018; exophthalone, omethoate, methyl isophthalocyanine and phosphide will strive to exit before 2020; chloropicrin, Carbides and Methvenol will strive to exit by 2022.

           According to Zeng Yande, director of the Department of Crop Cultivation Management of the Ministry of Agriculture, highly toxic pesticides are very effective in preventing and controlling underground pests. Currently, other pesticides currently available can not achieve the same effect. It is necessary to prevent and control the risks of highly toxic pesticides and to select suitable pesticides. This is a contradiction. To solve this problem, one is to screen a batch of products that can substitute for highly toxic pesticides among existing pesticides, and the other is to encourage manufacturing enterprises and research institutes to carry out R & D of low toxicity and high efficiency chemical pesticides.

            In use, the Ministry of Agriculture implemented a fixed-point operation on the existing high-toxic pesticides, requiring counter sales, real-name purchase, purchase and sales accounting, traceability management, and full supervision from production and circulation to use. At the same time, prohibit the sale of highly toxic pesticides through the Internet.

            Ministry of Agriculture has announced the ban on the 39 kinds of high-toxic high-risk pesticides banned the withdrawal of 22 kinds of highly toxic pesticides. Restrictions on the use of highly toxic pesticides are still strictly enforced, not for the production of fruit and vegetable tea.