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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | 'Draft pesticide Pesticides Management bill will hurt farmers' -Priscilla Jebaraj

'Draft pesticide Pesticides Management bill will hurt farmers' -Priscilla Jebaraj

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published Published on Jun 11, 2018   modified Modified on Jun 11, 2018
-The Hindu

Clause on listing ingredients dropped.

A group of Indian pesticide manufacturers says that the proposed Pesticides Management Bill, which is likely to be finalised this month, will harm both farmers and the domestic industry by not making it mandatory for the active ingredients of pesticides to be revealed in the registration process.

“The draft Bill will allow importers to register readymade products without registering the active ingredients,” said Pradip Dave, President of the Pesticides Manufacturers and Formulators Association of India. He said that this would prevent Indian manufacturers from registering ‘me-too registrations’, and producing pesticides at a cheaper rate. “This means they [foreign manufacturers] will get total monopoly and can loot the Indian farmer.”

Mr. Dave pointed out that farmers were able to buy a pesticide from Indian manufacturers at less than half the rate as sold by importers or multi-national corporations. For example, Bispyribac sodium, a herbicide for paddy, was introduced in the market at ?8,000 per kg by an MNC but is now sold by Indian manufacturers at ?3,500/kg.

The Bill, a draft of which was made available for public feedback by the Ministry for Agriculture and Farmers Welfare in February 2018, is intended to replace and update the Insecticides Act, 1968. The existing law mandates the registration of active ingredients, and allows for “me-too” registrations under Section 9(4).

However, in 2007, the government started allowing importers to register new formulations while keeping active ingredients secret for a fixed period. Though this policy was challenged in the Gujarat High Court and struck down in 2013, importers have been reluctant to comply, Mr. Dave said.

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The Hindu, 10 June, 2018, http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/draft-pesticide-pesticides-management-bill-will-hurt-farmers/article24130458.ece?homepage=true


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