Pesticide technical committee reviews 93 types of registration

The Pesticide Technical Committee has been examining 93 types of pesticide for registration to put them forward to the Pesticide Registration Board, according to a technical evaluation meeting held at the Agriculture Department’s meeting hall on 15 August.
Experts from the Environmental Conservation Department and Ministry of Health and crop protection professionals from the Agriculture Department attended that pesticide evaluation meeting.
Pesticide inspection includes testing pesticides at farms on a trial run and conducting chemical tests and quality tests at the laboratory under the Pesticide Law. They proceeded to the Pesticide Technical Committee and Pesticide Registration Board.
Dr Ye Tint Tun, Director-General of the Pesticide Technical Committee, addressed that the efficiency assessment of pesticides while seeking registration for importation and distribution of pesticides, environmental impact assessment and chemical residue for a long term must be considered.
“We need to invite foreign direct investment (FDI) to produce pesticides locally under the Pesticide Law amid weak output.”
Modernizing laboratories is also required for quality tests and analysis of imported pesticide raw materials to produce them locally.
He also instructed officials to reduce chemical pesticide use in accordance with the State’s policy and use organic fertilizer by providing technical assistance. He urged the committee to scrutinize information on pesticides to restrict pesticides that have never been utilized.
Pesticide Registration Board granted 4,237 licences, including 117 trail registrations, 1,868 temporary registrations, 2,251 registrations for complete utilization permits and one for utilization after modification. — NN/KK