Proceedings of the Asia regional workshop on the

Technical norms
Pesticides management is a systematic programs, it includes <strong>the</strong> inspection and management
<strong>of</strong> product quality, safety and efficacy, packaging, transportation, storage and use. The concerned
departments established standards and guidelines and o<strong>the</strong>r technical norms to regulate and instruct
pesticide production, use and management.
At present, China has made various formulation standards <strong>of</strong> pesticide products, including
nearly 180 national and industry standards and 15 000 enterprises standards <strong>of</strong> product quality.
According to pesticides management rules <strong>of</strong> FAO/WHO and some developed countries, Data
Requirements <strong>of</strong> Pesticide Registration, Guideline on Pesticide Field Efficacy Trial, Guideline on
Pesticide Residue Trials, Guideline on Pesticide Environment Safety Evaluation Trial, Pesticide
Registration Toxicity Trial Methods, Pesticide Toxicity Evaluation Procedures and o<strong>the</strong>r national and
industry technical standards are issued so as to standardize pesticide registration trials (tests) and
guide registration evaluations. General Rules <strong>of</strong> Pesticide Packaging, Sampling Methods <strong>of</strong>
Commercial Pesticides, Check Rules <strong>of</strong> Commercial Pesticides, General Rules <strong>of</strong> Pesticide Labels,
Toxicity Classification and Signs <strong>of</strong> Pesticide Formulation, Names and Codes <strong>of</strong> Pesticide
Formulation and o<strong>the</strong>r related standards are stipulated to guide pesticide registration and relevant
management. Guideline on Safe and Rational Use <strong>of</strong> Pesticides and such national technical guidance
are published to instruct safe, scientific and rational use <strong>of</strong> pesticides. All <strong>the</strong>se standards and rules
are in line with FAO/WHO standards.
A. Pest and pesticide management
In general, <strong>the</strong>re is currently no national IPM Law in China. The IPM is mentioned in <strong>the</strong>
Pronunciamento <strong>of</strong> IPM in 1975 and Regulations on Pesticide Administration in 1997. Though <strong>the</strong>
Agriculture Department has promoted IPM projects for many years, it should be formally named in
<strong>the</strong> prospective Plant Protection Law.
IPM has had a great success with <strong>the</strong> control <strong>of</strong> rice roller moth and cotton boll worm; o<strong>the</strong>r
successful cases were on vegetable, maize, forest, etc.
There are three main points that limit <strong>the</strong> promotion <strong>of</strong> IPM, as below:
● The first point is <strong>the</strong> limitation <strong>of</strong> agriculture technical extension system to <strong>the</strong> farms in
<strong>the</strong> village;
● The second is <strong>the</strong> farmers don’t think <strong>the</strong> IPM project can give <strong>the</strong>m benefit and save
money if <strong>the</strong>y haven’t carry out IPM.
● The third is <strong>the</strong> limited farmland to <strong>the</strong> farmer. In China, every farmer has no more than
one tenth hectare farmland on average, so it is difficult to actualize <strong>the</strong> IPM project.
For some pest control, especially for some insects, have <strong>the</strong> significant problem with <strong>the</strong>
resistance, such as cotton boll worm, diamond-back moth, some kinds <strong>of</strong> aphids, etc. So <strong>the</strong>
government and industry suggest to farmers to use different kinds <strong>of</strong> pesticides, recommend new a.i.
and provide <strong>the</strong>m <strong>the</strong> mix-formulation. More than half <strong>the</strong> pesticides in <strong>the</strong> market are
mix-formulations, such as OPs-CARBs, OPs-PYs, etc. But China government does not allow
tank-mixture formulation to apply for <strong>the</strong> registration by now.
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