Agriculture: for agricultural engineer Estelle Le Guern, we must “review public policies”

Friday October 14, the 19/20 settles in Brittany for a special edition on climate change. L’engineer agronomist Estelle Le Guernin charge of the Waters and Rivers of Brittany project, is present on set to talk about the need to review our operating methods in the agri-food sector. Asked about the case of a maize producer, she explains first of all that “it is really the monoculture of irrigated maize that is to be called into question. It would be necessary to diversify the cultures, associate them with the breeding and to keep the water on the fields, in particular by hedges“.

“the IPCC tells us: for 2050, the dice are cast. There will certainly be no more corn monoculture, at least in the South-West, there will be no more beech in Brittany. Really, it’s all our agro-economic and meteorological benchmarks that need to be reviewed.“, continues Estelle Le Guern. For her, in 50 years, “what’s going to happen for us is that the summers we’ve had like this year are going to become the norm, and we’re going to have to really review our ways of thinking, and review public policies“, concludes Estelle Le Guern.