Visit the International Agriculture Show, the Prime Minister confirmed on Monday the launch of a plan aimed at offering more visibility to farmers on phytosanitary products.
MO12345lemonde with AFP
Elisabeth Borne announced on Monday, February 27 on Monday, February 27 “a development plan for alternatives for the most important phytosanitary products”, ensuring farmers of state support and claiming that it is not a question of “repeating the Chlordecone errors “. “Concretely, this means seeking to identify new uses, new tools and new products to better protect harvests – while preserving our biodiversity,” said the Prime Minister visiting the International Agriculture Show.
The head of government thus delivers the first tracks of a plan announced on Saturday by the President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron, who aims to coordinate the action of France with that of the European Union to offer “of the Visibility “to farmers concerning the products which will be authorized or prohibited in their fields.
Elisabeth Borne called her Ministers of Agriculture (Marc Fesneau), the ecological transition (Christophe Béchu) and research (Sylvie Retailleau) to “present a new national strategy” on phytosanitary products ” summer “. “This new Ecophyto 2030 plan will be built with all the actors involved, at the forefront of which the farmers. Its means will be increased,” she said, without advancing figures.
“The European framework and nothing but the European framework “
“I want to be clear: in terms of phytosanitary products, we will now respect the European framework and nothing but the European framework,” she has developed, while in recent years France has chosen to prohibit certain substances harmful to the environment, but which were still authorized within the European Union. “We will not create any regulatory distortion for our producers, except in case of force majeure, when public health is threatened,” she added.
“Our approach is based on science and the opinions of scientists. This is the method we apply to all products. The other cardinal point is that we do not compromise with public health. No one here wants to repeat the errors of the chlordecone, “she said in reference to the powerful pesticide used until 1993 in French bananas of the Antilles and at the origin of many cancers.