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The Agriculture Ministry connected Wednesday (January 7, 2026) released the draught Pesticides Management Bill, 2025, seeking nationalist comments connected the authorities that aims to regenerate the 57-year-old Insecticides Act, 1968, and the Insecticides Rules, 1971, with enhanced penalties for violations.
The Ministry has invited feedback from each stakeholders by February 4, 2026, to refine the authorities earlier it is introduced successful Parliament, according to a statement.
Reform measures
The projected farmer-centric authorities introduces respective betterment measures, including provisions for transparency and traceability to amended services to farmers.
The measure incorporates integer methods and exertion to streamline processes portion imposing stricter controls connected spurious pesticides done higher penalties.
Key features of the draught measure see mandatory accreditation of investigating laboratories to guarantee prime pesticides scope farmers, and provisions for compounding of offences with enhanced penalties to beryllium defined by State-level authorities.
Striking a balance
The authorities seeks to equilibrium easiness of surviving for farmers with easiness of doing concern for manufacture stakeholders.
The amendments besides purpose to fortify administrative power implicit and absorption of pesticides crossed the country.
As portion of pre-legislative consultation, the draught measure is disposable connected the Ministry's website, https://agriwelfare.gov.in.
Stakeholders and members of the nationalist tin taxable comments and suggestions successful MS Word oregon PDF format done e-mails to pp1.pesticides@gov.in, rajbir.yadava@gov.in, oregon jyoti.uttam@gov.in.
Ankur Aggarwal, chairman, CropLife India, said, "We are presently successful the process of examining the draught Pesticides Management Bill 2025 (revised 2020 bill). We shall get astatine a consolidated presumption of the manufacture and stock a elaborate effect successful owed course."
