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Women on Farms Project call for urgent ban on cyanamide pesticide

May 12, 2025

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Cape Times

AGRICULTURE Minister John Steenhuisen has yet to disclose how his office would deal with increasing calls for a complete and immediate end to the production, export and use of cyanamide/ Dormex for agricultural purposes, amid serious health risks to farmworkers.

- NICOLA DANIELS nicola.daniels@inl.co.za

Women on Farms Project call for urgent ban on cyanamide pesticide

Cyanamide, a Highly Hazardous Pesticide (HHP), according to Women on Farms Project (WFP) had lost its approval in the European Union since 2008, but is still produced by Alzchem in Germany from where it is exported to countries in the global South, including South Africa.

In South Africa, cyanamide is distributed by Philagro on behalf of Alzchem, according to WFP.

Scores of women farm workers and dwellers recently marched to Philagro's office in Somerset West to hand over a memorandum for the attention of Alzchem Group AG, to highlight their concerns.

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