We’ve put together some footage from an event last month where we spoke to three French farmers with varying opinions on the use of pesticides in farming: one believes they are essential, another states that he does not need pesticides at all, while a third, who uses Integrated Pest Management techniques on his farm, comes somewhere in between. Interesting viewing.
Following our visit to the Efyasa farm in Spain, we spoke to chief agronomist José Luis Ripolles. He mentioned the quality issue arising from attacks by the California Red Scale pest; the limited use of pesticides in citrus fruit farming in Spain; and the fact that the five year exemption on irreplaceable pesticides being touted by the EU will not actually help him. View the highlights in the video below.
We attended an event in Isla Cristina in southern Spain earlier this month at the Efyasa orange farm, which operates on the principle of Integrated Pest Management, an approach that uses a complimentary array of methods to control pests in an attempt to reduce reliance on pesticides.
We attended the Healthy Foods Summit in London earlier this week with our trusted handycam. Following the keynote debate on food production, we spoke to two of the panel members, Helen Browning, Food and Farming Director at theSoil Association and Caroline Drummond, Chief Executive of LEAF, an association that specialises in integrated farm management techniques, and the moderator, Dominic Dyer of the Crop Protection Association, to get a full spectrum of views on the ongoing revision of the European pesticides regulation.
