A ten-year research on the usage of pesticides in Vietnamese vegetable cultivation

Abstract

When the centralised government 
encouraged the use of pesticides in the 
collectivised production that dominated 
agricultural policies and practices between 
1959 and the early 1980s, pesticides were 
first imported and employed in Vietnamese 
agriculture in the late 1950s (Xuan, 1995). 
Vietnam began to shift its economy and 
agriculture toward a market-based system 
by the middle of the 1980s, allowing private 
business owners to take part in the import, 
manufacture, distribution, and use of 
pesticides for the agricultural industry. The 
annual usage of pesticides rose from 100 
tonnes in the 1950s (Anh, 2002) to 35,000 
tonnes in 2002 and over 105,000 tonnes in 
2012 (ILS, 2013).