The development of pesticide industry of China has only gone through several decades, even though China has become one of the largest pesticide production and exportation countries, there still exits big gap comparing with developed countries. The main gap falls on the production and application of highly-toxic pesticides and large scale of old products. 33 types of highly toxic pesticides have been banned step by step since 1980s, and only 22 registered types of highly toxic can be used now.

Also due to the implement of the new “Food Safety Law of the People's Republic of China” on 1^st Oct. 2015, the Ministry of Agriculture has already made the initial work plan, and would eliminate high-toxic and high residual pesticide gradually and scientifically.

The detailed elimination schedule of highly toxic pesticide is as followed:

1. Eliminating methyl bromide and endosulfan before 2019. According to relative international conventions, methyl bromide can be used of solid fumigation until December 31^st 2015. The special application exemption of endosulfan on cotton bollworm and tobacco budworm will last until March 26^th 2015. Announcement will be published by the end of 2016, and the registration of methyl bromide and endosulfan will be stopped, then methyl bromide and endosulfan will be banned in agriculture since January 1^st 2019.

2. Also based on application risk supervision and assessment results, the registration of aldicarb, carbofuran, phorate, isofenphos-methyl, omethoate, isocarbophos would be stopped by 2018, and all those would be banned by 2020.

3. By 2020, most highly toxic pesticide will be eliminated unless some for agriculture production.

Currently, there are more than 30,000 registry pesticides in Ministry of Agriculture within only 650+ types. Most pesticides are registered repeatedly under the same type or even the same product, which become the so-called old pesticides. At the same time, there are lots of “dormant pesticides” that has been registered for years but not produced or sold in market yet. For those “old pesticides” that has been used for more than 20 years have caused insecticide resistance. “Old pesticides” also have higher risk due to lacking of residual and environment effect data. In addition, farmers have to increase the dosage which may increase the cost and put a heavier burden on environment.

As a result, the Ministry of Agriculture will issue more policies to ensure pesticide zero growth. In spite of eliminate high-toxic pesticide faster, those illegal, less needed, insecticide resistant and less valuable “old pesticides” shall be weed out of market forcibly.