pesticides

  • Ukraine led the pesticide management working group in the Europe and Central Asia region

    On September 26-27, a two-day regional seminar of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) on the proper use of pesticides in agriculture was held in Chisinau, Moldova. The event was attended by more than 20 representatives from Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Tajikistan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan. During the seminar, it was decided to establish a working group for regional cooperation on pesticide management, which Ukraine will be responsible for coordinating, the press service of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy reported.

    Date: 08 - 10 - 2018
  • Poisoning of Ternopil citizens: environmentalists called on the President to ban the chemical processing of fields by air

    Domestic environmentalists appealed to the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko with a request to prohibit farmers from using pesticides in the field aerial processing, UNN reported with reference to the relevant document.

    Date: 08 - 10 - 2018
  • FAO offers a solution for risk assessment of pesticide use

    The Plant Production and Plant Protection Division of FAO has developed a toolkit designed to provide low- and middle-income countries with support for the pesticide registration process. This is reported by the FAO website, according to agropolit.com.

    Date: 01 - 10 - 2018
  • How many pesticides are in European products?

    According to the results of monitoring of pesticide residues in food products, conducted in Europe in 2016, data from 30 countries are collected. More than 80 thousand samples were analyzed. This is stated in the infographics "How many pesticides are in European products?" on Kurkul.com.

    Date: 06 - 08 - 2018
  • Ukraine needs a new law to regulate the pesticide market

    PA "Ukrainian Industrial Plant Protection Association" in conjunction with the State Service of Ukraine for Food Safety and Consumer Protection and other associations are working on creating new versions of laws that should regulate the pesticide market in Ukraine. This was reported by the chairman of the "Ukrainian Industrial Association for Plant Protection" Serhii Kuzmenko, agroportal.ua reported.

    Date: 03 - 08 - 2018
  • Iryna Palamar's suggestions on development of cooperation are taken by the National Investment Council

    The Office of the National Investment Council in Ukraine is working on proposals for the development of cooperation, made by Iryna Palamar, head of the Ukrainian Stock Breeders Association (the USBA) and a public figure, as part of the discussion of the Roadmap for Improving the Investment Climate in Agriculture.

    Date: 31 - 07 - 2018
  • We have ensured that the import of uncertified pesticides into the country is not allowed by law

    This became possible due to the joint work of industry associations such as the Ukrainian Stock Breeders Association, the Ukrainian Industrial Plant Protection Association, the All-Ukrainian Ecological League and the Ukrainian Business Association, which strongly opposed the permission to import uncertified mineral fertilizers to Ukraine.

    Date: 12 - 07 - 2018
  • The Security Service of Ukraine seized counterfeit pesticides for 18 million UAH

    Employees of the Main Directorate for Combating Corruption and Organized Crime of the Security Service of Ukraine (the SSU) blocked a large-scale import of counterfeit pesticides to Ukraine in the amount of almost 18 million hryvnia. This is reported by the SSU press center, according to agravery.com.

    Date: 05 - 07 - 2018
  • Chinese chemistry was imported to Ukraine under the guise of European drugs

    Law enforcers exposed a private enterprise that purchased and supplied to the territory of Ukraine plant protection products of unknown origin and composition from the People's Republic of China. As reported on the site of the Prosecutor General's Office, the company conducted its activities in the Kyiv region and was exposed by the Boryspil management, agroday.com.ua reported.

    Date: 03 - 07 - 2018
  • How a pesticide cemetery is tried to be created through the organic bill in Ukraine

    The Ukrainian Stock Breeders Association together with the Ukrainian Industrial Association for Plant Protection, the All-Ukrainian Ecological League, the Ukrainian Business Association on June 6 sent an official letter to the People's Deputies of Ukraine of the Committee on Agrarian Policy and Land Relations not to support Amendments 72 and 73 to the draft Law on Organic Production No. 5448-d of 30.03.2018 (as amended for the second reading), which provide for the abolition of the mandatory condition for the importation and use of unregistered pesticides in Ukraine for these purposes - documentary confirmation of their state registration in the country where they are produced. The authors of the amendments were called to abandon them.

    Date: 11 - 06 - 2018