Amounts of glyphosate, a controversial weed killer, “declined by 35% (-3358 tons) between 2018 and 2019, after increasing from 11% the previous year.
Quantities of glyphosate, the controversial weed killer, “declined by 35% (-3358 tonnes) between 2018 and 2019, after increasing from 11% the previous year.
pesticide sales in France fell 44% in volume in 2019, after a jump in sales in 2018 (+18%), the government announced on Tuesday.
Amounts of glyphosate, a controversial weed killer, “declined by 35% (-3358 tonnes) between 2018 and 2019, after an increase of 11% (+999 metric) between 2017 and 2018,” according to the Ministry of Environmental Transition and agriculture in a joint statement.
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The French government promised at the end of 2017 that this molecule would be banned “in its main uses” within a period of three years, without having to wait five years, it was decided at the European level. “These changes to the negative side fully compensate for the increase in sales in 2018, which occurred immediately before the increase in the pollution fee that occurred on January 1, 2019,” the Government statement said.
According to these “provisional figures”, total quantities of active substances sold in agriculture, excluding biocontrol products, decreased by 44% between 2018 and 2019 (-28,078 tonnes), after increasing by 18% between 2017 and 2018. . (+ 11,870 tons)”, said the government, which believes that these results “allow us to see the first effects of the measures taken (…) from 2018 to reduce the use of phytosanitary products”.
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As for the quantities sold of products considered “of concern”, so-called CMRs (carcinogenic, mutagenic and reprotoxic), they decreased “by more than 50% in 2019 compared to 2018”, the government said.
In contrast, the relative share of biocontrol products, an alternative to chemical pesticides, “continues to increase, showing the progressive replacement and continuation of the most dangerous substances by these products,” officials said.
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On February 4, the Court of Auditors condemned the state’s agricultural pesticide reduction policy, which had previously delivered results “significantly below targets” in 2018, despite a substantial budget of around 400 million euros (of which 71 million for withdrawing diffuse pollution fees). .
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Updated date: June 30, 2020, 10:58 p.m
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