and Integrated Pest Management - part - usaid

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APPENDIX I
Syllabus for training of pesticide retailers.
1. Major pests and diseases of rice and other important food crops.
2. Pesticides and their properties.
2.1 Formulation types (EC, WSC, WP,
2.2
SP, etc)
Appearance,
and composition.
physical state and properties
pertinent
of pesticide
to their
formulation
quality (color, odor,
cmulsifiability,
viscosity, clearness,
suspensibility, compactness and shape of granules,
particle
2.3. Storage
size, etc.).
stability (effect of water, humidity, air, sunlight, heat,
2.4. material of container,
Mode
etc.).
of action (contact, stomach and inhalation poison, systemic,
etc.) and spectrum
2.5.
of eflectiveness.
Pesticides recommended for use in th, Bimas/Inmas
production
(food
intensification
crops
programs), their efficacy and use.
3. Application techniques and equipment for different pesticide formulations
(high volume, low volume and ultra low volume spiaying, fogging,
dusting, broadcast and soil incorporation of granules, seed/seedling
treaunent, etc.).
4. Pesticide hazard.
4.1 Acute and chronic toxicity and poisoning (skin contact and
absorption, ingestion, inhalation, etc.)
4.2 Persistence and accumulation of pesticides in body of living
organisms and in soil, water and air.
4.3 Hazards of pesticides on man (user, worker, consumer and other
people), domestic animals and livestock, fish and other non-target
organisms and the environment.
- hazards resulting from pesticide spill/leakage at transportar~on and
storage (contact with body of worker, contamination of food/feed,
clothes and other material and of water supply, etc.)
- hazards at weighing or pouring of pesticides and at preparation of
spray solution, etc.
- hazards at application (or operator and other people, fish, domestic
animals, crops, etc.).
- hazards arising from impropcr storage and misuse of pesticide
containers.
consequences of environmental contamination.
other possible hazards.