Paraquat: can I mow the lawn with paraquat? How serious is paraquat poisoning?

Do you know paraquat pesticides? The harm of this pesticide is very great, if people eat it by mistake, it will cause a lot of harm.

The herbicide paraquat is cheap and easy to use, and can be widely used in citrus orchards, tea orchards, sugarcane orchards and other weeds, and is also used as a defoliant for red beans before harvest, so it is favored by farmers and has always ranked in the top three in terms of sales performance in the past. However, because paraquat is highly toxic and has repeatedly jumped on the media page because of people abusing drugs to commit suicide in the past, the medical community has long called for a ban. According to the Journal of Internal Medicine, only 4 milliliters of paraquat 24% of the original solution may cause serious damage to the lungs and may eventually die of respiratory failure.

In May 106, the Council of Agriculture announced that it had decided to ban import and manufacturing from February 1 last year and completely from February 1 this year, promised to plan follow-up supporting measures and called on farmers not to rush to buy and hoard goods. Zou Huijuan, deputy director of the Prevention and Inspection Bureau, said that in the latest inventory on January 15, it was found that as of the end of last year, the production of manufacturing plants and the sales volume of agricultural pharmaceutical stores showed that farmers and a small number of agricultural pharmaceutical stores still had 700 metric tons of inventory, which may cause a lot of risks if forcibly banned.

Zou Huijuan explained that the effective period of paraquat is two years, during which time farmers were called on to return to the selling shop to help destroy it, but now stocktaking finds that it is also very difficult to destroy it all at once, mainly because pesticides are industrial wastes. At present, without adding the quantity of paraquat, the quantity of forcibly recovered paraquat is very large, so it is very difficult to destroy it immediately, so we hope that without increasing the risk. After all, the first stage of import and manufacturing was banned in February last year, and the part used in the back end was given a buffer period for farmers this year. I hope that farmers can use it well and safely.

The Bureau of Prevention and Inspection stressed that the exit policy of paraquat has not changed, the time schedule for banning processing, import and repackaging is still in accordance with the original announcement, and the relevant permits have been revoked, calling on traders and farmers who still have paraquat on hand to sell and use it within a time limit. At that time, if the ban is violated, the fine will range from 10, 5000 to 150000 yuan in accordance with the Pesticide Management Law.

Zeng Dezhi: the sale of highly toxic pesticides needs to be controlled by the government

However, according to the statistics of the Prevention and Inspection Bureau, the annual consumption of paraquat in Taiwan is about 400 metric tons. Zeng Dezhi, a special professor in the Department of Plant Diseases of ZTE University, said that according to the data of the Prevention and Inspection Bureau, 700 metric tons could not be used up in a year, and after the ban was issued the year before last, manufacturers everywhere were rushing to work and hoarding goods, and this situation could be foreseen. At present, the substitute nonanoic acid introduced by the Council of Agriculture is not very effective in the use of red bean farmers, and the Council of Agriculture should not force the exit of pesticides before formulating supporting measures.

Zeng Dezhi stressed that highly toxic pesticides still have to return to the existing management level for discussion. In the past, some people committed suicide by drinking paraquat because some pesticide sellers had not received rigorous professional training and buyers and sellers had no control. Only then did pesticides inadvertently flow into suicidal use. He called on the highly toxic pesticide trafficking system to be transferred to township public offices or other professional units. Only in this way can the government strictly control the flow direction and flow and solve the problem fundamentally.