Experts Approve Project to Phase Out Use of Methyl Bromide in Tobacco Production

Source from:  TobaccoChina Online 10/21/2009

A penal of experts organized by the State Environmental Protection Administration (SEPA) and the State Tobacco Monopoly Administration (STMA) inspected and technically accepted on October 13 a project of building hothouse tobacco seedlings culturing facilities to phase out the use of methyl bromide in tobacco production in Chenzhou City of south central China's Hunan Province. The project of building hothouse tobacco seedlings culturing facilities to phase out the use of methyl bromide in tobacco production in Chenzhou City is among a second batch of model projects to phase out use of methyl bromide in tobacco production in China approved by the SEPA and the STMA in 2007. Since an agreement on the implementation of this project was signed, Chenzhou City Tobacco Administration, which doubles as the local tobacco company, has attached great importance to the work of implementing the project, and has built a "model hothouse tobacco seedlings culturing center for phasing out the use of methyl bromide in tobacco production" in accordance with the principle of "reaching a high level, spending less money and seeking practical results". Over recent years, Chenzhou City Tobacco Administration, while striving to promote tobacco seedlings culturing in the city to a higher level, has actively promoted the work of phasing our the use of methyl bromide in tobacco production in implementation of China's commitments made at the for the Fourth Meeting of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer held in Copenhagen on November 23-25, 1992. Enditem