China plans to offer training for millions of farmers on responsible

   use of pesticides

    This year, China will offer training for millions of farmers on responsible use of

    pesticides across the country in order to practically facilitate the responsible

    use of pesticides and promote the green development of agriculture.

    This year's training activities will be jointly organized by the National Agricultural Technology

    Extension and Service Center of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, P.R.C (NATESC)

    and the national crop protection system, in collaboration with China Crop Protection Industry

    Association (CCPIA), CropLife China, and China Association of Pesticide Development & ?

    Application (CAPDA).

    At the launch meeting of 2019 national training on responsible use of pesticides held a few days

    ago in Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province, Director Zhou Puguo of the

    Institute for the Control of Agrochemicals, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (ICAMA) said

    that the responsible use of pesticides concerns the production and quality safety of agricultural

    products, and also serves as an important part of rural revitalization, poverty alleviation, and

    industry revitalization. Agricultural technology extension and crop protection departments as

    well as agricultural materials dealers shall recommend good pesticides to farmers while making

    scientific prediction and forecast of plant diseases and pests in order to allow good pesticides

    science to be applied in crops and targeted objects. The traditional practice of pesticide

    application with an apparatus carried on the back of people should be changed through

    vigorous research, development and extension of efficient pesticide application devices as well

    as development of high-quality crop protection service teams.

    Wei Qiwen, Secretary of the Party Committee of NATESC said this year’s training events,

    including on-site training and online training of different types and at different levels and tiers,

    would be innovative in their manner and method, arranged and progressed uniformly across the

    country as a whole, with the focus on small farmers, new-type professional farmers, new-type

    agricultural business entities and socialized crop protection service organization personnel, as

    well as pesticide dealers and grass-roots technicians. According to him, these events would be

    designed to train 100 instructors for responsible use of pesticides, 1,000 trainers for responsible

    use of pesticides, 10,000 county-level instructors for responsible use of pesticides, 100,000

    township-level specialized pesticide application operators, and 1,000,000 village-level pesticide

    application operators. The training will include various courses regarding the knowledge on

    pesticide administration laws and regulations, knowledge on scientific prevention and control

    of crop diseases, pests, grass and rats, knowledge on responsible use of pesticides,

    safeguarding measures for pesticide dispensing and application, protective measures for

    pollinating insects, and requirements for recycling of pesticide containers, etc.

    In recent years, the green development of agriculture has been continuously advancing in

    China. The year 2018 saw a negative growth of pesticide consumption. The Ministry of

    Agriculture and Rural Affairs proposed to boost decreased consumption and increased

    efficiency of pesticides, recycle pesticide containers, and consolidate the effect of negative

    growth of pesticide consumption in 2019.

    This launch meeting was sponsored by NATESC, co-organized by CCPIA, CropLife China

    and CAPDA, and undertaken by Syngenta (China) Investment Co., Ltd., Bayer CropScience

    (China) Limited, BASF (China) Limited, FMC (China) Investment Co., Ltd., Shenzhen

    Noposion Agrochemicals Co., Ltd., Hailier Pharmaceutical Group Co., Ltd., Anhui Fengle

    Agrochemical Co., Ltd., Jiangsu KWIN Joint-stock Co., Ltd., Jiangsu Institute of Ecomones

    Co., Ltd., Corteva Agriscience, and Chengdu New Sun Crop Science Co., Ltd. At the site

    of the launch meeting, Syngenta (China) Investment Co., Ltd., Bayer CropScience (China)

    Limited, BASF (China) Limited, FMC (China) Investment Co., Ltd., Corteva Agriscience

    and Jiangsu KWIN Joint-stock Co., Ltd. donated 800 personal protective equipments and

    100 books on responsible use of pesticides to the farmers of Diqing Prefecture.

    At the launch ceremony, relevant specialists gave lectures and offered training on a wide range

    of issues one by one, including responsible use of pesticides, integrated solutions for potato

    diseases and pests, training skills, thinking expansion for training on responsible use of

    pesticides, and the international situation of pesticide resistance management.

    Sun Xinyou, a senior specialist on product safety and sustainable development from Bayer

    CropScience gives a lecture on responsible use of pesticides.

    Yang Shaoyi, Regulations and Governmental Affairs Manager of BASF gives a lecture on

    responsible use of pesticides.

    Wang Wenjuan, Product Safety Management and Service Manager of Syngenta (China)  gives

    a lecture on training skills.

    Ma Tingchu, a senior agronomist from Yunnan Provincial Plant Protection and Quarantine

    Station gives a lecture on integrated solutions for potato diseases and pests and their

    development trends.

    David Penna, Product Safety Control Director of FMC Asia-Pacific gives a lecture on the

    international situation of pesticide resistance management and safety thinking expansion.

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