{"id":8136,"date":"2018-03-08T08:17:16","date_gmt":"2018-03-08T08:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/?p=8136"},"modified":"2018-03-08T11:17:00","modified_gmt":"2018-03-08T11:17:00","slug":"burundi-mps-adopt-bill-on-pesticides-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/burundi-mps-adopt-bill-on-pesticides-management\/","title":{"rendered":"Burundi MPs adopt Bill on pesticides management"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>D\u00e9o Guide Rurema, Minister of Agriculture has brought before parliament a bill on the management of pesticides which was later adopted by all MPs, this Wednesday 7 March 2018.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5155\" style=\"width: 395px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5155\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-5155\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/D\u00e9o-Guide-Rurema-300x258.jpg\" alt=\"Deo guide Rurema: \u201cthe good way of managing pesticides is to adopt a specific law\u201d\" width=\"385\" height=\"331\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/D\u00e9o-Guide-Rurema-300x258.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/D\u00e9o-Guide-Rurema-600x515.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/D\u00e9o-Guide-Rurema.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 385px) 100vw, 385px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5155\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Deo guide Rurema: \u201cthe good way of managing pesticides is to adopt a specific law\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Rurema says experts and other international organizations have shown that the good way of managing pesticides is to adopt a specific law. \u201cThis will help to distribute sufficient pesticides to the right people and at the right moment\u201d, he says.<\/p>\n<p>He also says this is a strategy adopted all over the world. \u201cAll countries agreed that there is a need to monitor how pesticides are manufactured, sold and used\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Nyabenda Pascal, Chairman of the Assembly, says there is uncontrolled usage of the packaging of pesticides. \u201cSome people use insecticides packaging in their daily life. For example, jerry cans, bags which are sold at the market\u2026I cannot even understand how people have not yet died\u201d, he wonders.<\/p>\n<p>D\u00e9o Guide Rurema says this bill comes as an answer to such questions because it will allow usage regulations.<\/p>\n<p>T\u00e9rence Manirambona, a MP, asks if the adoption of the bill may help control fraudulent pesticides. \u201cThere are some pesticides used in fraudulent ways because some people say they do not get enough pesticides. Does this new law bring any solution?\u201d He wonders.<\/p>\n<p>The minister of agriculture answers that even though the bill may be adopted, people should be sensitized to the appropriate use of pesticides.<\/p>\n<p>After series of questions, the bill was adopted at one hundred percent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>D\u00e9o Guide Rurema, Minister of Agriculture has brought before parliament a bill on the management of pesticides which was later adopted by all MPs, this Wednesday 7 March 2018. Rurema says experts and other international organizations have shown that the good way of managing pesticides is to adopt a specific law. \u201cThis will help to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5155,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18,670],"tags":[45,113],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8136"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8136"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8138,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8136\/revisions\/8138"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}