Innovating pesticide management methods to meet new agricultural requirements

As an important agricultural input, the production, management and use of pesticides are closely related to the effective supply of agricultural products and the stable development of agricultural production. At present, new changes such as agricultural supply-side structural reform, planting structure adjustment, regulation and policy adjustment, and industry structure transformation have put forward new requirements for pesticide management.

First of all, from the perspective of the agricultural and rural economic situation, with the acceleration of the circulation of cultivated land and the continuous growth of new business entities, new technologies such as seed coating, soil treatment, the integration of water, fertilizer and medicine, and large-scale plant protection machinery have been further popularized. the development of new organizational methods such as unified prevention and control has brought fundamental changes to the production, distribution and use of traditional pesticides. Secondly, the structural adjustment of the planting industry has taken substantial steps, which will have a far-reaching impact on the industrial structure of pesticides. On the one hand, the prevention and control of diseases, pests and weeds in staple crops and other staple crops should continue to be tight; on the other hand, the expected increase in drug demand for vegetables and characteristic crops requires pesticide management departments and enterprises to register and reserve technology in advance. In addition, the price formation mechanism of agricultural products tends to be market-oriented, which will force pesticide production enterprises to save costs and increase efficiency, and produce more efficient, safe and economical pesticide products. The goal and task of zero growth of pesticide use by 2020 is also a common challenge faced by pesticide management departments and the industry.

From the perspective of the situation of pesticide industry, the product structure of pesticide registration in China has been continuously optimized, and the development trend of low toxicity and environmental protection is obvious. However, the innovation ability of pesticide industry is not strong, and some problems that have perplexed the development of pesticide industry for a long time have not been effectively solved. First, there are many enterprises but not strong ones. The number of domestic enterprises has reached more than 2000, but there are only 40 with sales exceeding 1 billion yuan, and the sales share of the top 10 enterprises accounts for less than 10%. The industry lacks economies of scale, brand effect and core competitive advantage. Second, the phenomenon of product homogenization is serious. The status quo of domestic enterprises scrambling to register and produce varieties under patent protection has not changed. The structural contradiction of too many of the same products is prominent, and there is a lack of registered drugs for some characteristic crops. Third, the profit of pesticide export is thin. The export of pesticides is still in the stage of price, quantity, light brand and "substitute processing" for multinational corporations, and the export share of high value-added preparations is still low. Fourth, overcapacity is becoming more and more serious. The pesticide industry is facing the dual task of resolving structural overcapacity and ensuring the diversified demand of agricultural production.

In the face of the new situation and new requirements, pesticide verification should closely focus on the main line of "improving quality and efficiency, stabilizing grain income and increasing sustainable", and firmly establish the development concept of "innovation, coordination, green, opening up, and sharing". Take the initiative to meet the needs of agricultural supply-side structural reform and planting structure adjustment.

In the concept of management, we should mainly change from mechanism innovation to equal emphasis on system and mechanism innovation, pay more attention to the construction of system and system, and achieve evaluation, management and supervision according to law. In the focus of work, it mainly changes from technical evaluation to equal emphasis on technical evaluation and market supervision, and pays more attention to examining and improving the evaluation work from the perspective of the whole industry chain. In terms of methods and methods, it is mainly changed from paper-based evaluation to paper-based electronic evaluation, paying more attention to information construction, realizing the whole process of pesticide evaluation and inquiry online; in terms of governance means, mainly from a single administrative management to equal emphasis on management and service, pay more attention to the scientific governance of the combination of "management and service", and ensure that the evaluation is scientific, standardized and transparent.

For a period of time in the future, pesticide verification work should focus on building a set of rules and regulations linked with the new regulations, constantly improving the legal level of pesticide management, establishing a set of market supervision mechanism covering production and operation, constantly improving the accurate level of pesticide supervision, perfecting a set of technical standards and norms based on risk assessment, and constantly raising the scientific level of pesticide registration and evaluation. Create an open and shared pesticide big data platform, constantly improve the information level of pesticide management; consolidate the foundation of system development, and constantly improve the long-term level of supporting the healthy development of pesticide management.

At present, we should focus on several tasks: first, we should speed up the drafting of supporting rules and regulations of the "regulations" and make good preparations for the implementation of pesticide production and management permits. The second is to improve the registration and evaluation mechanism and speed up the registration of products urgently needed in modern agriculture. Formulate the "list of characteristic small crops", explore the green channel of group histochemical registration, study and improve the working mechanism for solving the lack of drug availability of small characteristic crops; speed up the registration of new pesticide preparations suitable for light simplification of cultivation system, unified control and large-scale plant protection machinery. Third, strengthen the re-evaluation of pesticide registration, continue to carry out safety risk monitoring of pesticide use, and study and put forward management measures for varieties with high frequency of use, large dosage and serious development of resistance. Fourth, focus on revising the standard system of agricultural residues, taking into account the gap between urgently needed agricultural production and small crops with special characteristics, and add 1000 new standards for pesticide residues. Fifth, speed up the research and application of risk assessment techniques, study a number of much-needed residue, health and environmental risk assessment technology and method systems and risk assessment standard systems with independent intellectual property rights, on the basis of traceability management of highly toxic pesticides, comprehensively promote the identification code system of pesticide products, and promote the traceability management of the whole process of the production, operation and use of pesticides.