Is the approach to pesticide regulation through food-security not old fashioned?
Similar to the 1968 Act, issues of food security and the pesticide prowess in vector control primarily drive the bill. The other major considerations are insufficiency of the past Act in many areas of description and regulation, food safety and the National Policy for Farmers, 2007. This is broadly the scenario in the whole of Asia where pesticide regulation is a subject of Ministry of Agriculture; possibly because a) there is a substantial agricultural contribution to GDP (10 to 40 per cent), and b) pesticides are principally (about 80-90 per cent of all) used in agriculture/ allied sectors. However, things have changed globally now. For example, in Brazil, which has taken over the top position from the US in pesticide consumption in 2008, the pesticide governance was a subject of the Federal Government Area for Agriculture till 30s while after 90s it became a shared activity among the Brazilian Institute of Environment and Renewable Natural Resources, the Ministry of Agriculture and
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