date:Nov 04, 2019
Thailand is set to join its south-east Asian neighbour Vietnam in banning the use of the herbicide glyphosate after the nation's government regulator the National Hazardous Substances Committee voted to phase out its use.
Two other popular crop protection products in the herbicide paraquat and the insecticide chlorpyrifos are also on the chopping block. All three products are still available in Australia for agricultural use but paraquat has been banned in Europe for over a decade and chlorpyri