The increasing overuse of chemical pesticides and fertilisers
are posing more threats to farmers' health and agro product consumers, but
authorities have never had an eye on the overwhelming consumption of the
chemicals in agriculture. This would also exert more pollution pressure to the
environment at a time when critically polluted areas by pesticide waste from
the subsidy period has not been dealt with properly yet. Participants to an
open forum held in Thua Thien - Hue Province last Friday agreed that the use of
chemical pesticides is on the rise. They were NGOs, officials of departments of
natural resources and environment, plant protection agencies, and farmers from central
localities of Quang Nam, Da Nang, Thua Thien - Hue, Quang Tri and Quang Binh.