India, Jan. 8 -- The Union Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare on January 7 released a fresh draft of The Pesticide Management Bill, 2025, aimed at regulating everything from manufacture, import to sale and use of pesticides.

The proposed law seeks to replace the Insecticides Act of 1968 and the Insecticides Rules framed more than five decades ago, marking yet another attempt - after several earlier efforts - to overhaul India's pesticide regulatory framework.

However, the 2025 draft introduces limited substantive changes when compared to the Pesticides Management Bill circulated in 2020. Many of the concerns raised by experts and civil society groups over the earlier version, particularly around regulatory clarity, enforcement ...