The Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, (MoAFW) on January 03, 2025, issued a Draft Insecticides (Fifth Amendment) Rules, 2024 to further amend the Insecticides Act, 1968.
The following has been stated-
•For sub-rule (2) of Rule 25, the following will be substituted:- “(2) The fee payable for testing or analysing samples received from the Insecticides Inspector shall also be as specified in the Second Schedule: PROVIDED that fee payable for testing or analysing samples received from the farmers specifically to ascertain the quality of bio-pesticide samples, shall also be specified in the Second Schedule. PROVIDED FURTHER that the Central Government may, after taking into consideration the genuine difficulties, of any particular State Government, exempt from payment of the fee for such period as it may consider reasonable.”
•In the SECOND SCHEDULE of Insecticides Rules, 1971, in para-2, following provisio shall be inserted: “PROVIDED that the Testing fees for sample of bio-pesticide submitted by farmer whose active ingredient is
