Báo cáo nghiên cứu nông nghiệp " An Integrated Approach to Strengthening Institutional Infrastructure for Environmental Risk Assessment, Monitoring & Remedial Action for Pesticide Residues "

Pesticides are used to protect crops from insects, weeds and diseases both in dryland and irrigated crop production in Viet Nam. However, reliance on pesticides in crop production system has the potential to cause environmental problems due to contamination of waterways and of produce, adversely affecting the Vietnamese environment and human health. The challenge for the education, research and extension for Government is to cope with the public demand for clean and safer agricultural practices by reducing the environmental impact resulting from the excessive use of pesticides, while maintaining profitability in agriculture....