Government's subsidy on bio-pesticides is
regarded a direct and quick way to develop bio-pesticides. Owing to the
subsidy, farmers' enthusiasm for purchasing bio-pesticides could be higher than
before, and thus some effective but expensive bio-pesticides could be applied
more, according to CCM’s
September issue, Crop
Protection China Monthly Report.
So China focuses on how to implement subsidy
projects of bio-pesticides sufficiently. In April 2013, the Ministry of
Agriculture of China (MOA) issued a central policy document, which stated that
China would continue to carry out the project of subsidizing policy about using
bio-pesticides and other low-toxic pesticides in some provinces as demonstrating
areas in 2013, and there should be no less than 10 provinces that can receive
subsidy on bio-pesticides in some of their vegetables and fruits production
bases.
Under this circumstance, Jiangsu, Jiangxi,
Hunan and some other provinces continue to execute the subsidy project for
bio-pesticides and other low-toxic pesticides. A new
bio-pesticide list (2013) with provincial financial subsidy was issued by the
Jiangsu Provincial Commission of Agriculture on 27 June. By 2013, the subsidy
project for bio-pesticides for vegetables has been implemented in Jiangsu
Province for three consecutive years, which is an encouragement for the
bio-pesticide industry. The new list includes nine products (see the table
below), which can be purchased with subsidy.
The subsidy will be used to push ahead with
the demonstration projects about the control of vegetable pests and diseases.
The demonstration area would be built permanently in vegetable production
bases. Professional cooperatives, enterprises and large plantations which grow
vegetables have priority to the subsidy.
Apart from Jiangsu, Shanghai City also
implements subsidy project for bio-pesticides, providing 50% of the subsidy in
the beginning, and then the rest 50% is from local fiscal revenue. Farmers in
the demonstration area in Shanghai can get free bio-pesticides at present.
Other regions such as Jiangxi, Hunan, Guangdong, Hainan, Shandong and Henan
subsidize bio-pesticides as well.
With the price of pesticides increasing year
by year, the government is raising subsidy for the purchase of them accordingly.
However, the pesticides which the government subsidized are generally chemical
pesticides at present. For this, some insiders suggest that the proportion of
subsidized bio-pesticides should increase.
Furthermore, the subsidy projects are carried
out only on a small scale at present, which exerts limited influence on
farmers, because few cities in China could keep pace with the economic level as
well as the fiscal power of Shanghai City to afford subsidy projects on a large
scale, for instance, Jiangxi Province, which was included on the list of
provinces where governments carried out subsidy demonstration project for
bio-pesticides. But the subsidy demonstration project of Jiangxi Province only
covered two counties namely Jing'an County and Xinjian County, with a total
area of only about 1,000 ha. in 2012, according to Jiangxi Provincial
Department of Agriculture.
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difficulties abound
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with pesticides in general
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in the bio-pesticide business
Bio-pesticides in China: product structure
and industry's dynamic
Developing bio-pesticide is a tendency for
environment and agriculture
Bio-pesticides to seize opportunity during
pesticides' upgrading process
Development of organic, green, unpolluted
food facilitates bio-pesticides
China continues to develop bio-pesticides
Application for bio-pesticide registration to
be simplified
Reinforce R&D investment and cooperation
in bio-pesticide industry
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