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Baku / 21.06.18 / Turan: Training for inspectors of phytosanitary control and diagnostic service and inspectors of the Customs Committee on the primary examination of plants and pest diagnostics began in Baku on June 20. The training is conducted by the Ministry of Agriculture in conjunction with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), and will finish on June 22.
The training theme is Strengthening Phytosanitary Control and Diagnostic Services in Azerbaijan, the website of the Ministry of Agriculture informs.
Today, the Public TV channel showed a TV story about field training for cotton farmers. The expert of the Ministry of Agriculture explained the rules of dissolving chemicals in water and their application in the fields for the plant protection against pests. It is assumed that the reason for the poisoning of cotton growers was the improper use of chemical plant protection products. The expert argued that when spraying these chemicals in the fields and in settlements, people and pets should not be in the neighborhood.
The urgent training in Baku and the training of cotton growers in the field show that, despite the massive poisoning of cotton growers, the government does not intend to abandon plans to increase cotton crops in Azerbaijan in accordance with the State Program on the Development of Cotton Production in Azerbaijan for the Period 2017- 2022. The production of raw cotton from 35.2 thousand tons in 2015 is to grow up to 500 thousand tons by 2022. In 2017, Azerbaijan harvested cotton crop in the amount of 200.8 thousand tons.
On June 20 it was reported on the fourth mass poisoning of farmers in cotton fields for a short period. In the Yevlakh region 24 people were poisoned, children among them. In general, over a month the number of people poisoned in cotton fields has exceeded 200. Experts have no doubt that chemical agents used in cotton fields for pest control are the cause of the poisoning.
The day before, the Minister of Agriculture dismissed the head of the Phytosanitary Control Department of the Ministry, Jamal Guliyev, who was soon appointed head of another department of the Ministry. And the press service of the Ministry of Agriculture announced that from July 1, 2018 it will be allowed to import pesticides, biological preparations and agrochemicals that have been registered by the Food Safety Agency with certificates of quality and origin to Azerbaijan. -0-
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