Deputy minister for Agriculture, Anthony Mavunde told Parliamentarians yesterday in the House when responding to a question posed by Asha Abdullah Juma (Special Seats) who wanted to know when the government will finalise review of various pesticides and crop drugs that are causing effects to crops.
Mavunde said TPHPA has been working to control the pesticides by ensuring that those with dangerous threats to crops, animals and people’s health are banned.
“This is conducted as per Plant Health Act, 2020 which gives the registrar of pesticides the power to revoke registration of pesticides that are found causing negative impacts to people and the environment,” he said.
In addition, he said that in 2018 to 2021, the government carried out a review to identify pesticides that have serious effects on human health and the environment which are identified as highly hazardous pesticides (HHPs) and found 44 types of pesticides with active ingredients that are harmful to human health as well as the environment.
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