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    Photos: Farmers drive tractors to Paris to protest pesticide ban

    Sugar beet decision sharpens discontent among farmers over ‘excessive pesticide curbs’


    Published:  February 08, 2023 18:06 Gulf News report

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    Environmental activists say pesticide residues damage soils and wildlife and they have welcomed the EU ruling against the use of sugar beet seeds treated with neonicotinoid insecticides that can harm bees. Image Credit: AFP
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    A farmer drives a tractor past the Eiffel Tower during a demonstration organised by unions including FNSEA (National Federation of Farmers Union), against "obligations" in agriculture, in particular restrictions on the use of pesticides, at Porte de Versaille, in Paris. Image Credit: AFP
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    The action follows an EU court ruling last month that overturned a French policy allowing sugar beet growers to use an insecticide banned by the EU, raising concern of a further decline in beet plantings and of sugar factory closures. Image Credit: REUTERS
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    The sugar beet decision has sharpened discontent among farmers over what they see as excessive pesticide curbs that go against government calls to boost food security in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and war in Ukraine. Image Credit: AP
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    “Our means of production keep being undermined by prohibitions without solutions,” Jerome Despey, secretary general of the FNSEA, France’s main farming union, told Reuters. “Enough is enough.” Image Credit: AP
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    The FNSEA and other groups organising the protest were expecting 500 tractors and 2,000 farmers from the Paris region to participate. Image Credit: REUTERS
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    A long procession of tractors, bearing banners saying “Macron is liquidating agriculture” - in reference to French President Emmanuel Macron - or “Save your farmer”, rolled through central Paris to join a gathering at the Invalides monument, near France’s agriculture ministry. Image Credit: AFP
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    Environmental activists say pesticide residues damage soils and wildlife and they have welcomed the EU ruling against the use of sugar beet seeds treated with neonicotinoid insecticides that can harm bees. Image Credit: AFP
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    “Biodiversity, indispensable for life on earth and farming, must not be sacrificed,” anti-pesticide group Generations Futures said in a statement supporting the neonicotinoid ban. Image Credit: AP
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    Farmers argue that sugar beet plants do not attract bees and that the ban leaves them exposed to crop disease virus yellows, raising the prospect of lower production and more imports from countries that allow neonicotinoids. French Agriculture Minister Marc Fesneau will present a plan to representatives of the sugar beet sector on Thursday, the agriculture ministry said in a statement after Fesneau met farm unions on Wednesday morning. Image Credit: AP

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