[News] Government is committed to sustainable agriculture: SAG announces use of natural pesticides

[FNX Magokiler]

A new regulation that encourages the use of these pesticides, together with the ban of 151 agrochemicals due to their high danger and the creation of the Public-Private Advisory Commission on pesticides, are the three new measures announced by the Agricultural and Livestock Service.

The Agricultural and Livestock Service (SAG), through its national director José Guajardo Reyes, announced a series of measures regarding pesticides in order to move towards more sustainable agriculture. This is how the resolution was signed that prohibits the use of 14 groups of pesticides due to their high danger to people, animals and the environment, which translates into 151 commercial presentations. Along with this, new regulations were presented that encourage the use of pesticides based on natural extracts and the SAG Public-Private Advisory Commission was created that will seek to improve and modernize agrochemical regulations in our country.

Guajardo, national director of the agency dependent on the Ministry of Agriculture - led by Minister Esteban Valenzuela - highlighted the announcement of the measures on National Environment Day, announcing the signing of the three resolutions. “It is an important day for agriculture, thinking about what our President Gabriel Boric asks of us, a more sustainable agriculture for a much greener country,” he explained.

The announcement was made together with various unions and representatives of peasant groups who highlighted that the initiatives adopted by the SAG mark a before and after in terms of the work of use and authorization of agricultural pesticides in our country.

 

 

Pedro Pérez, President of the National Confederation of Temporary Workers of Chile, expressed that this is “a step forward towards food safety, towards valuing the country and identifying ourselves in the world as a country that cares about producing healthy food, healthy for the people who consume them and healthy for their workers, who harvest and produce them.”

Regarding the resolution prohibiting the manufacture, import, distribution, sale, possession and application of 14 active pesticide substances, such as Binapacril, Captafol, Chlorobenzilate and Ethylene Dichloride, among several others; These are listed in the Rotterdam and Stockholm conventions as compounds with undesirable effects on the health of people, animals and the environment, and although they do not have current products in our country, they cannot be registered or used in our territory either. .

These international conventions, both Rotterdam and Stockholm, to which Chile is a subscriber, seek to control and reduce the risks associated with dangerous chemicals and environmental contaminants, including some pesticides, through regulation and international cooperation.

 

https://www.elmostrador.cl/noticias/pais/2023/10/04/gobierno-apuesta-por-agricultura-sustentable-sag-anuncia-uso-de-plaguicidas-naturales/