Recently, Prarathion is bound to be eliminated in Australia, It is reaching the destination soon. In no longer than two years Prarathion will be ban in whatever sales and use. The organic phosphorus insecticide / parathion-methyl will vanish in Australia from Jul 26^th 2013. The owner of the certification is willing to recall the registration after long-term investigation.

Date back from year of 1996 APVMA called an investigation against the parathion-methyl for the purpose of safety and toxic residual worries. The National Registration Management Bureau released a draft censorship policy concentrated on whether it needed more dossiers to support the usage of this registration- parathion-methyl. And in 1999, the temporary registration of TECH formulation was adopted.

But now it seems it is not necessary to proceed this investigation. Parathion-methyl is sentenced to death anyway. At last but not least, the replacement is carved for by the consumer.

Ref: http://www.chinapesticide.gov.cn/doc11/11081204.html

By Grace

Argentina plan to eliminate organochlorine insecticide- Endosulfan a year earlier. On Aug. 5^th, SENASA promulgate resolution that completely prohibit the import of Endosulfan and it’s formulation from July 1th, 2012. In fact, the original deadline is July 1th, 2013. Within the said time limit, all companies should automatically apply to revoke all Endosulfan Technical and formulation’s registrations.

Resolution states that each company’s import of Endosulfan can not excess the average import of past five years’ second half and can not excess the 50 percent of Average import of past five years.

All new registrations of Endosulfan will be forbidden after this resolution becoming effective. All companies, who hold the registration of Endosulfan, must report the stocks of Endosulfan to SENASA before Dec. 31, 2012.

Ref Agropages.com

By Lisa

According to the statistics result by Sindag, in the first half of 2011, the pesticide saleroom has increased 5% in Brazil. Although saleroom of all the three kinds of pesticides, fungicides, herbicides and insecticides, has decreased, the saleroom of plant growth regulators (PRGs) has increased a lot. The main target crops are sugarcane and cotton. As the price of cotton in international market keeps high, the planted area of cotton has increased 66%.

The best season for the pesticides sales in Brazil is from August to November. The planted area for soybean created history and reached 25 million hectares. So the demand of the pesticides used for soybean has increased a lot.

Another important reason for the sales increasing is the devaluing of USD. That makes the pesticides prices come down.

Ref www. Agropages.com

By Rachel