Why are Chinese vegetables full of fertilizers and pesticides?

The reason lies in farmers' low safety awareness, lax market supervision and irrational pesticide product structure. China has long relied on pesticides to prevent and control vegetable pests and diseases, but due to China's use of scientific and rational pesticide technology and the lack of advanced pesticide products, people are paying more and more attention to the problem of excessive pesticide residues on vegetables. It has been a major factor limiting its development. Li Li, director of the National Agricultural Technology Extension Service Center of the Ministry of Agriculture, pointed out at the China Zhejiang Vegetable Industry Expo that China's current vegetable production is the outstanding problem of chemical fertilizers, pesticides, quality and safety of the extensive use of pesticides. There is a potential danger.

China is the world's largest producer and consumer of vegetables, it is understood that the vegetable growing areas and the total output is the world's first. Vegetables have become an important pillar industry for the national economy and people's livelihoods, but the outstanding bottleneck in the development of the industry is the existence of huge quality and safety hazards. Li Li said, in China's production of all pesticide formulations, emulsifiable concentrates and wet powder and other dosage forms in more than 60% constitute easily affect the quality of the environment, but also more than 60% of the potential factors affecting human health.

In addition to the irrational structure of pesticide products, vegetable farmers on the safe use of pesticides has become one of the causes of excessive pesticide residues on vegetables. After the application of pesticides by vegetable farmers, sometimes it is not possible to recover the remaining pesticides at safe intervals, resulting in pesticide residues.

In addition, most vegetable farmers lack understanding of the safe use of pesticides and the use of pesticides, and the nature of pesticides lack of reasonable regulations. Experts in the "13th Five-Year Plan" strengthened production standardization and quality and safety supervision, strengthened the strict management of agricultural inputs, guiding producers to apply scientific fertilizers, promoting the application of biological control technology, and recommending the establishment of quality and safety tracking systems and control of production sources and products. It is important to ensure food safety of vegetables in two ways.