Banned and restricted herbicides

As the pressure increases to develop safer and more economical herbicides, the Government is forced to either withdraw or restrict some of the older chemicals.  Table 3 provides a list of the restricted and banned herbicides used in South Africa.  It is important to have this list handy so that anybody using these chemicals can be notified.  When a substance is “withdrawn” it implies that there may still be some limited uses for the product but when it is “banned”, it may not be used at all.

Some of the banned and withdrawn substances as published in the South African Government Gazette over the years.
ChemicalStatusYear
AldrinWithdrawn1992
ArsenicBanned except on Citrus1983
AtrazineWithdrawn1995
BHCBanned1983
2,4-DPartly banned in Natal1991
2,4-D estersWithdrawn in Western Cape1980
DDTBanned except for malaria1983
DieldrinBanned1983
EndrinWithdrawn1980
Gamma-BHCWithdrawn1971
MCPAPartly banned in Natal1991
Methyl bromideWithdrawn1995
NicotineWithdrawn1971
TDEArial application in Natal banned1970

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I studied agriculture at the University of Stellenbosch in South Africa in 1984 and completing my M.Sc Agric. in 1998. . My love for "Controlled Environmental Agriculture" (CEA), started in my third year when I was exposed to the Welgevallen Research Station. There Prof. P.C.Maree showed us what hydroponics and vegetable farming consisted of. It was awesome. There were no large tractors involved, no dusty fields, no uncontrollable storms to destroy your crop (well that is what I thought). Since then I put hydroponics and other aspects of horticulture to much better use, not just farming. We solved pollution problems by cleaning mines effluent with hydroponics and permaculture. They were used to remove toxic metals to produce clean water (which we sold and make more money of than the produce). What I learned from 1987 I tried to compile in this website and I hope it is from some value to the serious commercial farmer that wants to take the journey into Commercial Farming.

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