As China's accession to the WTO is imminent, in view of the irrational structure of the pesticide industry and the lack of competitiveness of the varieties, the relevant national departments will speed up the pace of structural adjustment of pesticide production.

The State Economic and Trade Commission recently approved 47 enterprises including Tianjin Pesticide Co., Ltd. to increase the production of designated pesticide varieties. It is reported that this is the first time that the government has published the list of approved pesticide manufacturers and production varieties online in the form of announcement. The second batch of approved enterprises and varieties will be published in October this year.

Relevant data show that the variety structure of pesticides in China is not reasonable. At present, there are about 200 kinds of pesticides produced, with an annual output of more than 400000 tons, of which 30% of the production of highly toxic pesticides that have been restricted internationally. The repeated construction of pesticide enterprises in China is also quite serious. There are seven or eight enterprises producing a pesticide in one province, and the regional distribution is extremely unreasonable. The pesticide enterprises in Jiangsu, Henan and Shandong provinces alone account for more than 30% of the total number of pesticide enterprises.

In order to ensure the safety of people's lives and property, improve the quality of life, protect the ecological environment and adapt to the requirements of sustainable agricultural development, the relevant departments of the national government have listed the development of new pesticides with high efficiency, safety and low toxicity as the priority of high-tech industrialization. After China's entry into WTO, the external environment of China's pesticide industry will change greatly, which objectively requires major adjustments to the regional layout and product structure of pesticides.

It is understood that the period of validity of approved manufacturers and production varieties is 2 years. Enterprises that have passed the approval must complete the relevant procedures such as use registration and production approval certificate within the period of validity in strict accordance with the approved contents. Any enterprise that expands and changes the approval content, transfers the approval without authorization, or fails to complete the use registration, production approval certificate and other procedures within 2 years, the approval obtained will automatically become invalid. At the same time, the government will further restrict and eliminate backward pesticide products through the registration of pesticide varieties and the issuance of production approval certificates. The relevant departments are working hard to formulate management opinions on standardizing pesticide approval and production approval certificates. (He Huiwen source: Beifang. com)