The design of the law to put an end to the threshold distance for the use of chemical pesticides

It is under consideration in the Legislature of a bill (PL), which can have a serious impact on the health of the public, and the environment in the state of Mato Grosso. Presented by the member state, Gilberto Cattani (Liberal Party), and passed on the first vote, a proposal for streamlining the rules for the use of chemical pesticides in the state, allowing it to be applied close to the populated areas, water sources, which can lead to the contamination of soil, water, and food.

Currently, the order number 2.283 in 2009, which is currently in force, provides for the use of chemical pesticides in agriculture, there can be a distance of at least 300 metres away from the towns, cities, villages, boroughs, and of the springs of the water supply of the population of 150 metres away from the fountains of water, and detached houses, and groups of animals, and in the 200 meters of water, yet it off and on.

But the LG 1833/2023 lets you farm medium-sized or small, to make the application to land of pesticides, without having to worry about a distance from inhabited areas. In the case of a large property with more than fifteen modules in rural areas, the proposal also provides for the use of the pesticide at a distance of 25 metres. 

Under the proposal, the member of parliament claimed that a separation distance of at least 300 metres away and brings harm to the production of agricultural, population, and economy, and spreading, control of agricultural pests”.

The Committee on the Environment, Water Resources and Mineral Resources of the state Legislature, which examines the projects and discussion topics related to the fields of the environment was favorable to the project, and the look has claimed that the bill “has the potential to reduce the economic losses resulting from the excessive restrictions without compromising on the safety, environmental, and human. 

The doctor, a researcher, and a professor at the Federal University of Mato Grosso (UFMT), ‘ Said Pignati, he says, however, that the effects are not opposed to this, and it is short-sighted, because it will increase your exposure to pollutants and increase the likelihood that the population has the disease. 

“The closer it is, the greater is the likelihood that you will have to intoxication is a severe fetal abnormalities, from cancer. The population that lives on the side of both children and adults, and the rivers, and everything is going to be very much affected and infected,” he said. 

‘Said Pignati is responsible for such a study, which examined the health of the people living at a distance of less than half a mile from the fields of the plantations in the state of Mato Grosso. By means of a survey, conducted by the center for research on Environment, Health,Work, and Education (Neast), the Institute of public Health (ISC) at the university, it has been shown that in the vicinity of agricultural fields is a significant risk factor.

“We did a survey of the population, and the closer the farm, the more the disease of the people in them. Imagine, if you can reduce it to 25 feet, or is set to zero. This is a problem that is too big, and it seems that the identity is not important for this question, if it’s going to increase in diseases, contaminate the water. It seems like they just want to profit,” he said. 

“They have to be aware, and to condemn the bill. There is no minimum distance to the ideal for the use of chemical pesticides, since some of them reach up to miles away from where they were applied. The ideal is to reduce the use of chemical pesticides, to increase the production of agro-ecological, and prohibiting the use of chemical pesticides, which are banned in the European Union, ‘ said the professor. 

The deputy of the state Lúdio Cabral (Workers ‘ Party) introduced a new version of the bill is to become law, the ban is now regulated by a Decree 2.283 in 2009. The amendment to the parliamentary waits for the decision of the Committee on the Environment, Water Resources and Mineral Resources in the state Assembly. However, the standing orders of the House of the Law, the guidelines you must wait up to five sessions in order to be placed on the assessment again. The end of the period it came to pass on 9 October, and the proposal of bill Cattani you can return to the ALMT for a second vote on it at any time. 

The indigenous people, and pesticides from the 

In a study conducted in the state of Mato Grosso, with a focus on indigenous peoples ‘ lands, he revealed a serious threat to the intensive use of pesticides, pose to the health of the people.

Under the title “indigenous peoples ‘ lands and the determination of environmental health by discussing the exhibition for agro-chemicals,” the survey conducted by the teacher of the course in public Health UFMT have demonstrated that the close proximity to the private sector in agriculture, especially corn and cotton, and to expose indigenous peoples to a number of health problems, such as irritation to the skin and the eyes, and headache, nausea, hormonal disorders, congenital malformations, spontaneous abortions, genetic mutations, cancer, and other respiratory problems, and mental disorders, including depression and suicide.

The study also found that people living close to the crops and farming of maize, and cotton, were almost two times more acute poisonings compared to those who lived in other places as well. 

Chemicals banned

In another study carried out by the Neast/ISC/UFMT), in partnership with Operation in the Amazon’s Native (OPAN), the impact of the villages, through the use of chemical pesticides in the fields, which are located in the vicinity of the territories of indigenous people, found in the carbofurano, which is prohibited in Brazil in the fall of 2017, and more than 50 years ago in Europe and in the states in the us. It can lead to a risk of death after the ingestion or inhalation of, a lot of damage to the systems, neurological, respiratory, and endocrine abnormalities of the fetus in humans, animals, wild, and great persistence in the environment.

It was also found atrazine, a herbicide, to the group of chemical triazine ring, which has the function of drying, which is prohibited in the European Union since 2004), and carbendazim, a fungicide is highly toxic, it was trading down in Brazil in the year 2022, after the process of re-evaluation. 

A concern with the approval of the LG 

The president of the association of the indigenous Peoples and Indigenous Organizations from the state of Mato Grosso (Fepoimt), Also Xunakalo, it shows a concern with the bill and states that the bill might affect you even more in the peoples.

“Most of our rivers are born in the territory. We do not have an effective oversight, and the poison, you can go to our rivers and kill fish and cause damage to our health,” she says, pointing out a concern, particularly in relation to indigenous peoples. “We’re worried that the increase in the number of diseases and in the case of pollution, and we’ll be the first to be hit by this poison at all”.