Gazette banning pesticides including Glyphosate revoked
Posted by Editor on November 22, 2021 - 10:21 pm
An Extraordinary Gazette notification has been issued by the Registrar of Pesticides revoking the Gazette issued in 2014 prohibiting the use and sale of several pesticides including Glyphosate.
The Gazette issued in 2014 had prohibited the use, offer for sale or sale of agrochemicals containing the active ingredients Glyphosate, Propanil, Carbaryl, Cholopyrifos and Carbofuran in the following areas:
Within the Districts of Anuradhapura, Polonnaruwa, Kurunegala, Monaragala and within the Divisional Secretariat, Divisions of Mahiyanganaya, Rideemaliyadda, Kandaketiya in the Badulla District.
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Glad to see some sense prevailing. Anything can be used for good and ill. Educate the stupid people in Sri Lanka on how to use agro-chemicals and pesticides. If you want to protect people’s health, empower and get the SLS to analyse chemicals in crops being prepared for sale and impose jail terms and huge fines farmers who abuse agro-chemicals.
Egg on your face Indra,
The Officer who revoked the gazette has been unceremoniously shown the door !!!