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Home » News from Thailand » The Commission does not want a ban on the use of agricultural poisons
The Hazardous Substance Commission (HSC) has revised its decision to ban three chemicals commonly used in agriculture. Paraquat, chlorpyrifos and glyphosate, which are very harmful to humans and animals, may nevertheless continue to be used in the cultivation of maize, cassava, sugar cane, rubber, palm oil and fruit.
The Department of Agriculture should devise measures to convince farmers to limit the use of pesticides and farmers should be educated about proper use. Stores selling the harmful chemicals (which are banned in most countries) must be given a quota.
The committee does not want an immediate total ban because many farmers would then get into trouble and this would have economic consequences. Farmers must first be given time to find substitutes before a ban takes effect.
State Secretary Wiwat says he will launch a national campaign to persuade farmers to stop using harmful chemicals altogether.
Source: Bangkok Post
“Farmers must first be given time to find substitutes before a ban takes effect….”
Do farmers understand that?
It seems to me that it really is a matter for the government to determine which toxins can and may be used on food.
And a nationwide campaign to get farmers to stop using harmful chemicals.
Then the farmers will also have to have an alternative, otherwise there will probably not be a harvest, at most a harvest of overfed vermin.
Convince the peasants?
The only thing that will make this possible is the price.
As the wind blows, government measures blow.
Farmers who grow rice would be left with the rice, because there would be too much rice in storage. Farmers would have to make ends meet for 3 years if the measure goes through!
Farmers, who use the life-threatening poison paraquat, among other things, are offered a transitional period to switch to another substance.
No hard intervention!
Possible government interests in the chemical industry, which produce these hazardous substances?
Sorry, rice must be tobacco, which may get a 3 year supply ban.
Dear Lodewijk, instead of government interests, it can also be private interests.
Monsanto is known for lobbying government officials in the US for their product glyphosate in particular, and the company will no doubt have done so in other countries as well. In Europe it had no chance to do so because the drug was banned there. However, countries like Thailand were completely open. The problem is that use and quantity is not taught. So the more used, the better for the supplier, regardless of the harmful consequences that this fuels for humans and animals. As you know, Monsanto has recently been taken over by the German Bayer and a world giant has been created as a result. I can't imagine Bayer going down the same path as Monsanto. But yes…..it remains to be seen for the time being.
I wish you bon appetit, you as a Thai food lover. It is better to use your common sense and opt for (unfortunately more expensive) European imports.
Please note that the import of most Thai foodstuffs is prohibited in Europe.
Good news for hospitals.
The number of cancer patients in Thailand is already skyrocketing , and will continue to grow after this ruling by the committee .
Guys just keep on spraying preferably every day.
You will find out for yourself after a few years.
I hear it almost every day in my area: people who have cancer and who have died or are going to die from cancer.
I see them pass my house every day, in the pickup truck or behind the moped or as a sidecar mounted on the moped.
Loaded with reels, large blue plastic drums pump out water and poison.
Just carry on without any form of protective clothing, just a hat and exceptionally a cloth for the mouth.
Wishing everyone strength for the future.
Jan Beute.
There are more causes of cancer in Thailand than poison.
The raw fish, for example, which contains parasites.
They settle in humans – if I remember correctly – in the liver and cause cancer there.
Raw minced meat is also eaten (something like tartare, but less clean)
I dare not say what it contains, especially after the meat has been on a stall on the market.
And then there is of course the rice alcohol.
It is actually produced as fuel for mopeds, but people are firmly convinced that it is intended for human consumption.