SRI LANKAS EXPERIENCE IN

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SRI LANKAS EXPERIENCE IN PESTICIDE MANAGEMENT

Sumith Jayakody Office of the Registrar of
Pesticides Department of Agriculture pest1_at_slt.lk
Tel/Fax [phone] Tel (94) 8 1
2388076
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SRI LANKA

• Total population of around 19 million

• Total land area of 6.5 million

• Agriculture based

• 20 GDP from domestic plantation sectors

• 34 employment

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Regulatory Control Measures

• Control of Pesticides Act No. 33 of 1980

• Pesticides Technical Advisory Committee

• Control of Pesticides (Amendment) Act
• No. 6 of 1994

• Post registration activities

• Coordinated action with the Customs

• HS code system

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Trends in Pesticide Use and Trade

• Table-1 Foreign exchange spent for import of
  pesticides-2003

Source Pesticide Statistics for the Year 2003,
Office of the Registrar of Pesticides

• Total annual pesticides consumption in year 2000

• 1696 MT

• 49 million US

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Pest and Pesticide Management

• IPM

• Government Commitment

In the Agriculture Policy Statement (1994) of
the President of Sri Lanka it was declared that
the dependency on chemical fertilizer and
agro-chemicals will be progressively reduced
through fertility improvement measures, adoption
of integrated pest management other agronomic
practices

• Successful IPM program in rice

• 1984 2001 assisted by FAO

• Impetus from National Pesticide Policies

• Further expansion to other agricultural crops

• Chilli, Tomato, Leafy Vegetables

• IVM with rice IPM from 2002

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Figure 1 Annual consumption (MT) of selected
insecticides in 1990 and 1995
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Health and Environmental Information

• Occupational exposure

• Only 20 recorded

• Chronic health concerns?

• Environmental contamination?

• Data gaps

• Discrete data coverage

• Deficiencies in health records

• Data on academic interests

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Health and Environmental Information

• gt80 of poisonings caused by pesticides

• Direct effects through pesticide banning

Table 3 Total pesticide poisoning episodes
during 1983-1990.
Source Ministry of Health Statistics Division
Personal Communication, Prof. Ravindra
Fernando, University of Colombo, Department of
Forensic Medicine, Colombo.
Table 4 Total pesticide poisoning episodes
during 1996-2002.
Source Annual Poisoning Data, National Poison
Information Center, Colombo.
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Quality Control and Effects in the Field

• Excessive use, abuse

• Adulteration

• PHI not followed

• High residues in agricultural commodities

• Local diet

• Export product

• Cross contamination

• No local MRLs, PHIs determined

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Recurring Problems

• Reliability of data submitted for registration

• Reliability of quality certificates for commodity
  products

• Adulteration at field level

• Re-labeling of outdated pesticides

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