Elisabeth Borne will seek to reassure on alternatives to pesticides

On Monday February 27, the Prime Minister, Élisabeth Borne, will take over from a President of the Republic who stayed at the Salon de l’Agriculture for no less than 12 hours, Saturday February 25. On the program of the visit, one theme in particular, that of pesticides. The Prime Minister should outline the plan already announced on Saturday by Emmanuel Macron. A plan launched by the summer to develop alternatives to the main phytosanitary products. Products that will be withdrawn from the market over the next few years.

Farmers worried

The challenge is to find new uses and new products. In January, the French government was forced to withdraw his derogations on neonicotinoid products. Exemptions that we had heard a lot about for beet growers in particular. This plan is the beginning of a response for farmers worried about the consequences of no longer being able to use pesticides which they consider essential for their crops, confides the journalist of France Televisions, Leo Seux, live from the Porte de Versailles (Paris).