APPPC Workshop On Pesticide

Quality Control
25-28 June 2018, Beijing, China

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 Country Report on Current Status of
Pesticide Quality Control and
Regulatory Management of
Cambodia

By
Hean Sereivuth, Department of Plant Protection Sanitary and Phytosanitary, GDA, MAFF
Thong Soklin, Department of Agricultural Legislation, MAFF
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 I. Kingdom of Cambodia
Lao
2. Country Information Thailand

 25 Provinces, including the Capital Phnom Penh

 Language: Khmer
 Area: 181,035 km2 , Agriculture land = 24%
 Population  15 millions, 42% rely on
Agricultural
 GDP: 1269 USD in 2016, Agriculture =26.3%
 RGC has regarded the Agriculture sector as Vietnam
high priority in its national development
agenda. Backbone of country’s economy

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I. Kingdom of Cambodia
2. Major crop production in 2016
Description Cultivated Area Harvesting Area Yield Quantity
(ha) (ha) (T/ha) (T)

Rice 3,118,160 3,099,769 3.211 9,952,270

Maize 144,532 141,440 4.69 663,086
Cassava 684,070 675,126 21.95 14,820,249
Sweet Potato 5,615 5,600 8.33 46,635
Vegetable 48,784 48,721 8.80 428,847
Mung bean 50,417 49,404 1.30 64,137
Peanut 14,241 14,221 1.62 23,059
Soybean 42,685 42,653 1.66 71,005
Sesame 16,196 16,117 0.93 14,963
Sugarcane 22,237 22,237 33.32 740,870
Jute 5,735 5,735 1.18 6,777

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I. Kingdom of Cambodia
3. Pesticide use in Cambodia
 Since introduction of modern agriculture in early 60s, The use of pesticide also became frequent.
 Pesticide use in Cambodia in 1980 (7%)
 The use of pesticide was sharply increased in 1985-1994 (49%).
 In 2004 , 70% of farmer used pesticide at least one per year.

Pesticide Import Permitted (Tons) Pesticide Import Permitted (Liters)

35000 32,809.01 1800000
1,637,805.00
30000
29,359.38 1600000
1400000
25000
1200000
20000

15000
16,301.28 + 1000000
800000
600000
10000 455,000.00
400000319,001.00
5000 176,276.00
200000 78,784.00
78.80 200.38 180.00 N/a
0 0
2014 2015 2016 2014 2015 2016

Commercial Pesticides No-Commercial Pesticides Commercial Pesticides No-Commercial Pesticides

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II. Pesticide Management
Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry & Fisheries (MAFF)

IPPC
General Directorate of Agriculture (GDA)
Focal Point
NPPO
Dept. Plant Protection Sanitary and Phytosanitary (DPPSPS)
Pesticide Plant Protection Office
Pest Management
Plant Quarantine Office
Phytosanitary
Agricultural Product Quality and Safety Promotion Office
Outbreak Management

National Agricultural Laboratory (NAL)

Pesticide Formulation and Chemical Residue Lab
National IPM Program
Dept. of Agricultural Legislation (DAL)
Cambodia Agriculture R&D Institute (CARDI)
Agricultural Universities/ Schools

Ministry of Environment (MOE)

Dept. Of Pollution Control
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II. Pesticide Management
Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry & Fisheries (MAFF)
General Directorate of Agriculture (GDA)
NPPO
Dept. Plant Protection Sanitary and Phytosanitary (DPPSPS)
Pesticide Plant Protection Office
Pest Management Bio-efficiency Test and MRL adoption (Asian Harmonization)
Phytosanitary
Agricultural Product Quality and Safety Promotion Office
Outbreak Management
MRL Enforcement for GAP accreditation
National Agricultural Laboratory (NAL)
Pesticide Formulation and Chemical Residue Lab
pesticide formulations and MRL Analysis
Dept. of Agricultural Legislation (DAL)
Procedures of Registration and Pesticide & Fertilizer Law Enforcement

Ministry of Environment (MOE)

Dept. Of Pollution Control POP & BASEL Focal points
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III. Regulations Development
1. Pesticide Law
 
The Law on the Management of Pesticides and Fertilizers was developed
in 2012. Followed by Prakas on the List pesticide in Cambodia in 2012
also, which list 2 categories of pesticide as
1. List of Banned Pesticides to Use or Register in Cambodia (163)
2. List of Restricted Pesticides in Cambodia (48)

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III. Regulations Development
The regulations developed under Management of Pesticides and Fertilizers law are following:
1. Prakas on procedure and standard requirement for pesticide registration, 2012
2. Prakas on procedure of pesticide management in trade, 2012
3. Prakas on Procedure of the primary inspection and the validity for distribution of pesticides and fertilizers, 2015
4. Joint Prakas on the decision to reward the inspectors who participated in suppressing a specific offence, 2015
5. Sub degree on uniform, insignia, and rank sign for inspectors of pesticides and fertilizers, 2017;
6. Prakas on the application of model paper for business of biological control agent, 2017;
7. Final draft of Prakas on guideline for the pesticide label & model of labels;
8. Draft Prakas on guideline for the pesticide containers disposals and some remaining regulations.

On 27 March 2017, MAFF announce the ban to register and use

Tricyclazole pesticide due to new EU regulation (relate to rice)
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IV. Type of License of Agriculture Materials

Pesticide Registration (Article 7)

Import and Export Permit License (Article 29)

Retail Permit License (Article 33)

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IV. Type of License of Agriculture Materials
1. Pesticide Registration
Responsible for all Procedures of Registration and Law Final Approval on
Enforcement Product
Registration is
made by Minister
Registration
for Pesticide
DAL, MAFF

GDA,MAFF
GDA, MAFF

Responsible for Formulation Analysis and Field Trial

of Registered Products Respectively

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IV. Type of License of Agriculture Materials
specification, compositions, AI, analytical
1. Pesticide Registration (cont.) method, physical and chemical properties of
AI and other compositions.
Applicant
 bio-efficiency from country of origin
 Data on pesticide toxicity.
Application Submit Supported Documents  Data on pesticide residues.
 Safety to the environment.
 The trade, usage and disposal.
Confirmatory Analysis  Packages and label in khmer.
National Agricultural
Bio- Efficiency Test
Laboratory (GDA,NAL)
DAL Review and Agriculture Research Station
evaluate the (GDA, PPSPSD or under GDA)
documents

Make Suggestion and Ask for Decision 2 Type of Registrations

• Full Registration: (3 years)
MAFF’s • Provisional Registration: (1 year)
Declined Minister Accepted unless the condition and
Decline Application or Provisional Registration requirement are fulfilled
Suspend Application or Full Registration
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IV. Type of License of Agriculture Materials
2. Pesticide import & Export Permit
 The License can be issued for individual or company whose AMs were already
officially registered with MAFF
 The License is valid for 1 year after issuance date
 After obtaining the license the individual or company shall:
 Comply with the standard for container, label or leaflet approved during
registration
 Code the products by system of custom codes
 Comply with safety measurement under the law
 Record all information related to import/export operation
 Inform MAFF to undertake primary inspection during import/export operation
or prior to distribution
 Provide company branches or dealer list who will distribute the imported
products locally

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IV. Type of License of Agriculture Materials
3. Retailer License
 All individual who wish to retail AMs need to be granted
retail license from Provincial Department of Agriculture
located In their respective province

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V. Plant Protection Department (PPSPSD, GDA)
 Before Nov. 2008 Plant Protection and Phytosanitary Inspection Office (PPPIO) of
Department of Agronomy and Agricultural Land Improvement (DAALI), MAFF (Sub
Decree 15 dated on 13/03/03)
 After Nov. 2008 Plant Protection, Sanitary and Phytosanitary Department
(PPSPSD) of General Directorate of Agriculture (GDA), MAFF (Sub Decree 188
dated on 04/11/08)
7. To be a technical advisor and a service in pest control intervention, in
assessment of chemical substances used to prevent, control, repellant,
grow regulate (and all other pesticide actives) pest and all agent or
biological substances used for the above mentioned purpose and for soil
fertility improvement and in assessment of quality of agricultural
product;

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V. Plant Protection Office (PPSPSD, GDA)
 Bio-efficiency test is conducted by DPPSPS at
Agricultural Crop Station, MAFF
 Bio-efficiency test is followed the international
standardization protocol
 Bio-efficiency test is carried out as following conditions:
 Cropping seasons
 Replication of test
 Type of crops or varieties
 Type of pests
 Location or site of test
 Result of bio-efficiency test is provided within 6 to 12
months.
 Result of other parameter beside bio-efficiency test is
provided within 12 to 24 months.
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V. Plant Protection Office (PPSPSD, GDA)
Insecticide Fungicides

Herbicides
Plant growth promoting

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VI. National Agricultural Laboratory (NAL,GDA)

National Agriculture laboratory (NAL) has established since 1989 namely as Soil, Fertilizer and Plant Laboratory under
supervised by the Department of Agronomy and Agricultural Land Improvement (DAALI).
It’s role is to analyze the nutrients of soil, fertilizer and plant in agriculture.
Since 2008, it is named as NAL by the sub-degree 188 and it’s role is to:
-Prepare policies and plan for capacity development, analysis and evaluation to be used as reference
for other technical departments
- Document the protocol of analysis and provide timely analysis/ evaluation to technical departments
- Provide analysing service to private sector
- Communicate and coordinate with stakeholder to encourage investment
- Participate in any campaign to rescue the crops and to recover the plants as requested by technical
departments.

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VI. National Agricultural Laboratory (NAL)
Present capacity of the NAL : able to analyze soil nutrient, fertilizer, pesticide formulations, testing seed
and grain qualities, do tissue culture of banana
Constraint of the NAL: Equipment and chemical uses are not enough for operation, Staff capacity is limited, Can
not analyze pesticide residue and heavy metal in plant produces, Can not analyze GMO in plant and
food

Samples Analyzed in NAL (2014-2017)

2500

2000

1500 924
996
692
550
1000
401
334 408
608
500
514 658 512
295
0
2014 2015 2016 2017

Organic and Chemical Fertilizers Soil Pesticide Formulation

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VII. Department of Agricultural Legislation (DAL)
DAL has the responsibility to register pesticides with the technical
assistance from the Department of Plant Protection of the General
Directorate of Agriculture (GDA)
Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries,
MAFF

Department of Agricultural Legislation, DAL

5.
2. 3. 4. 6.
Planning
1. Legislation Litigation Agricultural Statistic and
and
Administratio and law and Material Data
Internation
n Office Promotion Investigatio Standard Managemen
al Relation
office n office Office t office
office

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VII. Department of Agricultural Legislation (DAL)
Quality Control Inspection
The officers from DAL and Provincial officers have the power as judicial
police that working on the inspection of pesticide Quality Control Post
Registration .
Inspection Policy is conducted by Three ways:
1. After product import and store in the warehouse (before contribution)
2. Market inspection ( Retailors and wholesalers in the market)
3. Inspect on the transportation in the local country

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Thank You

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