Growers desert oilseed rape amid neonicotinoids ban
January 18, 2017
Editor’s Note: Europe’s ban on neonicotinoid seed treatments is an environmental catastrophe that harms the globe.
From: Farmers Weekly
The ban on neonicotinoid seed treatments is costing EU farmers more than £500m in lost revenue each year, a report has found.
The study, published by the EU’s Humboldt Forum for Food and Agriculture research consultancy, shows the ban has also shortened EU agricultural supply of OSR by 912,000t (-4%).
This production has been taken up in other parts of the world, such as the Americas, Ukraine and Australia where neonicotinoids banned in the UK and the EU remain widely used.
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