Aims to create awareness on judicious and proper use of pesticides
The Government has taken several measures for proper use of pesticides by the farmers.
The Ministry of Agriculture has stated in a release that pesticide residue data generated under the “Monitoring of Pesticide Residues at National Level” are shared with State Governments and concerned ministries/organisations to initiate the corrective action for judicious and proper use of pesticides on crops with an integrated pest management approach and to generate awareness amongst farmers.
The Department of Agriculture, Co-Operation & Farmers Welfare (DAC&FW) emphasises integrated pest management (IPM) which promotes biological, cultural and mechanical methods of pest and advocates need based, judicious use of pesticides.
This follows an earlier report released by the Agriculture Ministry stating that the government had found residues of pesticides in a significant number of vegetables, fruits, milk and other food items collected from various retail and wholesale outlets across the country. Samples collected from organic outlets were also found having residues of pesticides.
Residues of unapproved pesticides were found in 12.5 per cent of the 20,618 samples collected nationally as part of the central scheme ‘Monitoring of Pesticide Residues’, which was launched in 2005.
The samples collected during 2014-15 have been analysed by 25 laboratories.
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