China Starts Fight against Counterfeit Pesticides

The Ministry of Agriculture of China an-nounced on February 23rd to beat off theillegal actions of manufacturing and sell-ing counterfeit and low quality pesticidesin order to safeguarding peasants,agricul-ture and environment.According to an official report,China’sadministration departments totally foundand confiscated around 64 thousand tonsof counterfeit and low quality agriculturalmeans including pesticides and fertilizersin 2008.On February 17th,nine adminis-tration departments including the Minis-try of Agriculture started a special controlaction of beating off counterfeit and poor