Biological plant protection drugs: Farmers are not salty

Quang Ngai newspaper

Chemical pesticide stations

“Chemical pesticides not only affect people’s health, but also pollute the environment and destroy land. In particular, the overuse of chemical pesticides is one of the reasons why many agricultural products fall into a “season of devaluation” due to poor quality, as well as food safety and hygiene, ” Director of the Department of Crop Production and Plant Protection Pham Ba said.

High-tech fruit and vegetable application project in Duc Minh commune (Mo Duc) “died prematurely” because of the use of biological pesticides.

According to the statistics of Plant Protection Department (Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development), on average, in the past 5 years, our country spent 500 – 700 million USD annually, to import about 35,000 tons of chemical pesticides. In particular, herbicides account for 48% (equivalent to 19 thousand tons), the remaining is pesticides, disease …

Therefore, the volume of active ingredient in plant protection per hectare is up to 2 kg, while some other countries in the region are only from 0.2 to 1 kg / ha. In addition, more than 30% of people use pesticides in contravention of regulations, mainly not guaranteeing dosage and concentration, people do not have labor protection …

Overcoming this situation, the provincial agriculture sector has been strengthening the propaganda, and at the same time, widely publicizing the list of 231 active ingredients, with 721 trade names of biological pesticides, so that farmers can know and use use. However, partly because of habit, partly because biological pesticides usually produce relatively slow effects and more stringent storage conditions, so farmers still prefer chemical pesticides.

“The insects bite the leaves a lot, if they use biological pesticides, they will not know when to kill them all. So, I had to spray chemical pesticides, hoping to have vegetables to sell, ”said NTS, a vegetable farmer in Nghia Dung commune (Quang Ngai City). In addition to the problem of fast pest eradication, according to Ms. S, spraying pesticides is also a “not to do” task, because both harming itself and affecting consumers’ health. However, if not using pesticides, vegetables are not beautiful, consumers criticize not buying.

Increase the use of biological pesticides

Along with propagandizing to change the awareness, behavior of producers about the role and benefits of biological products and biological pesticides, in order to improve the use of biological pesticides, it is necessary to have common the companion of authorities at all levels, as well as the involvement of enterprises (enterprises) and production and business units of biological pesticides. Due to the fact, the propagation and use of biological pesticides is still only a “slogan”, depending on the awareness of producers, not yet “materialized” by specific actions and solutions.

Therefore, it is necessary to improve the efficiency of agricultural extension in guiding farmers to produce safe agricultural products, to meet market requirements; strengthen management of food safety … At the same time, encourage farmers and businesses to produce and supply high quality and safe agricultural products and foods; mobilize and propagate consumers to prioritize the choice of using foods manufactured according to VietGAP, GAP and safety standards … in order to motivate producers to increase the use of bio-pesticides. progress toward limiting and not using chemical drugs.

“The State needs to promulgate mechanisms and policies to attract businesses to invest in research and development of biological pesticides, as well as improve the effectiveness of management of biological pesticides on the market, promptly detect and handle them. cases of taking advantage of selling of inferior drugs to the market, losing users’ confidence in biological plant protection drugs ”, Mr. Ba suggested.