ANALYSE – Apart from the Confédération Paysanne, unions and farmers alert the risk of a new breakthrough in food imports, in the event of retropedage on the law rising constraints to the profession of farmer.
French beet producers are likely to relive the dark year of 2020. While signs of jaundice, this viral disease transmitted by a aphid, multiply in sugar plots in recent weeks, the 23,000 French planters fear the worst. But this is not what alarms them the most. They were betting on the recent adoption of the Dupumb law to change the situation. They will still have to wait before this text, supposed “Raise constraints to the exercise of the farmer profession”produce its effects.
This provides, among other things, the reintroduction under conditions and temporary of acetamipride, an insecticide in the neonicotinoid class (NNI), to fight more effectively against the disease that caused during its last wave, more than 30 % of losses in the beet fields. “Since 2023 and the ban on neonicotinoids, we feared this scenario because we do not have effective means of struggle, against aphids …
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