Skip to content
View in the app

A better way to browse. Learn more.

Thailand News and Discussion Forum | ASEANNOW

A full-screen app on your home screen with push notifications, badges and more.

To install this app on iOS and iPadOS
  1. Tap the Share icon in Safari
  2. Scroll the menu and tap Add to Home Screen.
  3. Tap Add in the top-right corner.
To install this app on Android
  1. Tap the 3-dot menu (⋮) in the top-right corner of the browser.
  2. Tap Add to Home screen or Install app.
  3. Confirm by tapping Install.

Anutin: Ministers at odds over use of banned chemicals paraquat and chlorpyrifos

Featured Replies

30 minutes ago, ozimoron said:

Glyphosate, sold as Roundup, has been banned in dozens of countries worldwide and by multiple Australian local governments because of its toxicity to humans.

 

https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2021-07-20/glyphosate-ban-could-cost-farmers-hundreds-of-thousands-/100307322

 

I actually held a permit to use chlorpyrifos and attended a government course to get it. I intended to use it in one of its 3 forms, in tubes branded Mirant for use against mastotermes darwiniensis, a large termite which attacks young and stressed mango trees. It was illegal to use it on the actual trees themselves. I never used it as I discovered that the termites only attack young trees in newly cleared and disturbed ground near the perimeter lines of native bush land. It was therefore preferable to put up with some losses for a few years until things stabilised. It is still legal as an under slab treatment for that termite in my state alone. The other form was a more diluted air spray which is the most dangerous form. I think it's use in that form is now banned.

Roundup is not banned in Thailand.

One reason i like paraquat is you can apply same day before seeding.

Using roundup i usually wait 14 days before seeding.

In Thailand's tropical weather if you get heavy rain in between the 14 days waiting for the roundup to work it may be another 2-3 weeks before you can get back on the land.

So roundup 1st and paraquat as a backup.

  • Replies 31
  • Views 2.2k
  • Created
  • Last Reply

Top Posters In This Topic

Most Popular Posts

  • ozimoron
    ozimoron

    He is on the money here. If you want to do something other than gratuitously bash Thailand why not put up a reasoned argument with citation to show how he's wrong. I live in the only state in Australi

  • trainman34014
    trainman34014

    Farmers here the same as Fishing Trawler Owners; they don't give a stuff about people's lives or wellbeing, money is their God and they don't care who dies as long as can worship piles of cash.

  • Wow!  Chalk this one up.       Good work Anutin ????

Posted Images

22 hours ago, webfact said:

He said that the health of the Thai people was para

quat.

Create an account or sign in to comment

Recently Browsing 0

  • No registered users viewing this page.

Account

Navigation

Search

Search

Configure browser push notifications

Chrome (Android)
  1. Tap the lock icon next to the address bar.
  2. Tap Permissions → Notifications.
  3. Adjust your preference.
Chrome (Desktop)
  1. Click the padlock icon in the address bar.
  2. Select Site settings.
  3. Find Notifications and adjust your preference.