Mismanagement of Chemical Agriculture in Malaysia from Legal Perspective

This paper is attempted to look into the issue of mismanagement of chemical agriculture in Malaysia from legal perspective. This conceptual paper focus on the activity of manufacturer, supplier, vendor as well as the farmer when dealing with fertilizer, mineral nutrition, artificial mulch and other chemical and biochemical process. The main question is whether such dealings are parallel with law. The most important is to know how to use, deal and control pesticides in a lawful manner in order to ensure they are protected from the adverse effects. To date, many commercial farms take the easy way out by using the pesticides and fertilizer in excess to be able to quickly eliminate the pests. Even though it can increase the productivity of the crops but at the same time, it will have an impact on health. Application of agrochemicals has vast effects on human being, ground water, soil, conservation of ecosystem and to the nature at large. Mismanagement of agriculture chemicals may cause ruin. There are several legislations governing these issues in Malaysia such as Pesticides Act 1974, Poison Act 1952, Food Act 1983, Environmental Quality Act 1974, Occupational Safety and Healthy Act 1994, Fumigation of Hydrogen Cyanide Act 1953 and many regulations and guidelines. This study implicates that many commercial farms are still lacking of knowledge in managing the chemical agriculture in a right and lawful manner.