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Comprehensive review of Insecticides Act recommended

PTI - Kolkata

Eastern India Pesticides Association (EIPA) has said the Insecticides Act needs a comprehensive review and there is a need for a new product portfolio in order to offer high quality plant protection to farmers. "We are hopeful that the government will undertake the task of reviewing the Insecticides Act with the objective of providing the right policy environment for the industry," the EIPA president Mr Jayanta Chakraborty said at the association’s annual general meeting here.

India, he said, needed a new product portfolio to offer high quality plant protection to the Indian farmer. "We are passing through a critical time in terms of plant protection in India. The all-round cynicism about the role of pesticides needs to be replaced with positive energy that can transfer our potential into reality," Mr Chakraborty said.

The time, he said, was now ripe for significantly increasing the quality of plant protection in the country. "What we need is a high quality plant protection if our farmer has to compete with the best farmers in the world. There is no reason why our farmer should not have access to the technologies that the best farmers in other countries have got," he said.