Annex 8. Training Topics and Safe Pesticide Use Web Resources

Annex 8. Training Topics and Safe Pesticide Use Web Resources

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  Pest identification: How to recognize common important pests and diseases
  
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  Monitoring: The importance of frequent crop monitoring for pests, diseases and weeds
  
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  GAP and IPM concepts, tactics and tools found in Annex 5 that can reduce pesticide use and associated risks on specific pests of West Africa CORAF/WECARD IP target crops
  
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  PMPs—Pest Management Plans: Creating and using these farm crop-management tools
  

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  Understanding pesticides: Quality, types, classes and acute toxicities of common pesticides
  
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  Regulations: US, EU and West Africa CORAF/WECARD laws that guide pesticide registration and use
  
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  Natural pesticides: Raise awareness of and promote the use of natural pesticides found in Annexes 3, 4, 5 and 7 as well as green-label synthetic pesticides with relatively low risks
  
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  Spot Treatments: The importance of spot treatments if needed (instead of crop-wide treatments)
  
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  MSDS: How to use MSDSs for pesticide-specific information on risks and risk reduction measures
  
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  REI—Re-Entry Intervals: Pesticide-specific risks associated with entering a sprayed field too soon after the spray operation
  
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  PHI—Pre-Harvest Interval: Pesticide-specific risks associated with harvesting a crop before pesticides have had a chance to break down
  
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  MRL—Maximum Residue Level: Risks associated with pesticide residues on human food
  
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  Vulnerable individuals: The importance of keeping children, pregnant women, elderly and infirm away from the field while spraying and kept out after spraying
  
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  Human and environmental risks: Risks associated with more commonly-used pesticides (use information from MSDSs and Annex 7)
  
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  When to spray: Early in the morning, late in the afternoon, or night without wind or rain
  
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  Use of recommended PPE: Why it is used (see product MSDSs, product labels and web reference below)
  
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  Proper use and maintenance of sprayers, including proper sprayer calibration and spray nozzle choice
  
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  Proper clean-up & post spray hygiene
  
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  Safe Use: How to purchase, transport, store and use pesticides safely (“safe purchase” requires quality, brand-name products)
  
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  Maintenance: of PPE and sprayers
  
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  Monitoring for the development of pesticide resistance
  
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  Proper collection and disposal of pesticide rinsate and packaging (see disposal web reference below and MSDSs)
  
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  The use of pesticide spray buffer zones near schools, water resources, organic crop production, apiaries, bird sanctuaries, biodiversity enclaves, national parks or other sensitive areas.
  
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  How to reduce and mitigate risks to critical environmental resources and biodiversity (found in PER Factors E and G)
  
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  Honeybees: Ensuring pesticide applicators notify beekeepers about spray activities, and spray early morning or late afternoon when no heavy winds or rain are present
  
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  Water Pollution: Raise awareness of pesticides (especially some herbicides) with high ground water contamination potential where water tables are high or easy to reach (use Annex 7 and MSDSs)
  
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  Exposure routes: Ways pesticides enter the body and ways to mitigate entry
  
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  Basic first aid: Understanding how to treat pesticide poisonings (see first aid web reference and MSDSs)
  
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  Record-keeping: Pesticide used, when used, which crop, how applied, who applied
  

PIC Pesticides and Industrial Chemicals (http://www.pic.int)

POPs Pesticides and Chemicals (http://www.pops.int)

Pesticide Disposal Options:

http://www.epa.gov/oppfead1/labeling/lrm/chap-13.htm

Annex 9. Field Monitoring Form for
Farmer Best Practices including GAP and IPM options

Name of Demonstration Farmer: Crop: Date:

What are the major pests encountered by the farmer?:

Which of the attached Preventive and Curative GAP and IPM tools and tactics are used by farmer?

Are pesticides used by demo farmer? Yes__ No__

How are pesticides applied? backpack sprayer__ other__

What are the names of the pesticides used?:
Which PPE does farmer have and use? gloves___ overalls___ boots___

respirator___ goggles___

Has the farmer had IPM and Safe Pesticide Use training? Yes__ No__

Are there any empty pesticide containers scattered in the field? Yes__ No__

Are there signs that the backpack sprayer has leaks? Yes__ No__

Does the farmer understand the pesticide label information? Yes__ No__

Is the pesticide stored safely out of the house or away from kids? Yes__ No__

Does the farmer use gloves for mixing the pesticide with water? Yes__ No__

What times of the day are the pesticides applied? ________

Are pesticides applied during rain or windy conditions? Yes__ No__

Are women or children permitted to apply pesticides? Yes__ No__

Are empty pesticide containers used to store water? Yes__ No__

Does the farmer rinse equipment away from streams and open water? Yes__ No__

Does the farmer wash clothes after applying pesticides? Yes__ No__

How does the farmer dispose of empty pesticide containers? puncture/bury__ burn__

Is there any evidence that pesticides are becoming less effective? Yes__ No__

Annex 10: Farm and Project Record Keeping Associated with Pesticide Use

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