Pesticide Information

At last week’s British Chamber of Commerce in Belgium event (see entries below) we had a chat with Professor Alan Buckwell, Policy Director at the Country Land and Business Association in the UK, who chaired the event. We asked him how he thought the event had gone and whether industry’s demand for a full impact assessment, in his view as an independent moderator, was reasonable. Hear what he had to say in the video below.

At the British Chamber of Commerce in Belgium event we recently attended in Brussels, “The Importance of Science and Technology to the Future of European Agriculture and Food Production”, we had the chance to speak to Klaus Welsch, Group Vice-President of BASF Crop Protection in Europe, and asked for his take on the current legislative developments at the European level and what comes next for industry.

Substantial increases in household food prices could result if the European Parliament succeeds in pushing through its version of proposals to cut the availability of pesticides for use in agriculture. This is the key finding of a new report on the impact of the EU’s proposed pesticides legislation carried out by economist Sean Rickard of the Cranfield School of Management.

We attended an event in Brussels yesterday entitled “The Importance of Science and Technology to the Future of European Agriculture and Food Production”, organised by the British Chamber of Commerce in Belgium.