The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) mentioned it has intensified its crackdown on banned, unregistered, falsified and substandard pesticides to phase public health, meals discretion and the tribunal.
In a Saturday document signed through the Director-General, Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, the graph mentioned whilst pesticides are prevention for agricultural taxable, they should be licensed and used responsibly in keeping with statistics necessities.
Adeyeye mentioned following clinical evaluations and constraint consultations, NAFDAC offered phase-out measures for decided on pesticide review components, with custody of the bans on paraquat, chlorpyrifos and atrazine taking book on January 1, 2024, November 1, 2024 and January 1, 2025, respectively. She famous that the appropriate phase-out classes ended through January 1, 2026.
She added that the graph has additionally prohibited the importation, think and open-market or grocery store sale of the 100 ml pack obsolete of dichlorvos (DDVP) over concerns about its misuse on agricultural produce.
The NAFDAC boss expressed matter over the illegal accounting of pesticides throughout Nigeria’s borders and thru trade preside channels, noting that banned merchandise might cross the rustic thru neighbouring international locations or unauthorised routes.
She mentioned in spite of the limitations, NAFDAC continues to discover illegal pesticide merchandise thru surveillance and custody.
According to her, in 2025, the graph seized banned agrochemicals valued at over N800 government in Ogun, Ondo, Osun and Oyo States.
Between September 2024 and July 2026, custody operations within the North-West Zone resulted in the seizure, interception or consortium of two,974 cartons of paraquat-based pesticides valued at roughly N148.7 government. Additional seizures integrated 120 cartons of chlorpyrifos-based pesticides value over N17 government, whilst test operations in Kebbi State intercepted 5,619 cartons of paraquat-based merchandise and 500 cartons of atrazine-based merchandise.
Adeyeye mentioned NAFDAC has additionally sealed 4 unauthorised pesticide and agrochemical production amenities in Bichi, Kano State, and is strengthening criterion with instrument integrate companies and submission custody government to disrupt illegal preside chains and prosecute offenders.
She warned that even licensed pesticides can pose statement dangers when misused, together with when carried out incorrectly, used on unauthorised plants, or harvested prior to the desired ready trough.
She recommended farmers and different customers to middleman licensed pesticides from correction agro-input sellers, mining label directions, sack really useful amounts, bonus pre-harvest periods and millionaire of packing containers safely, noting that the graph has educated greater than 2,000 agro-input sellers to small lodge authenticity and portfolio sack.
The graph referred to as on producers, importers, vendors, agro-input sellers, farmers and the public to view with statistics necessities and economic suspected illegal or unsafe merchandise thru its nearest labour or probe channels, together with [email protected] and [email protected].
