Pesticides

Pesticides

Conventional agriculture relies on pesticides to protect crops from pests and diseases – including synthetic herbicides to control weeds and synthetic fertilisers to promote crop growth. Over time this heavy use of synthetic chemicals reduces the soil biota and the productive capacity of the soil, and creates increased resistance by pests to the chemicals used,…

Submission on application for the reassessment of chlorothalonil formulations

Submission on application for the reassessment of chlorothalonil formulations

16 December 2016   Hazardous Substances Environmental Protection Authority Private Bag 63002 Wellington 6140   Submission on application for the reassessment of chlorothalonil formulations   Introduction The Soil & Health Association of New Zealand Inc. (‘Soil & Health’) was incorporated under the Incorporated Societies Act 1908 on 4 December 1942. Soil & Health’s objectives broadly…