THE QUESTION.
After a black summer for French beet growers, a large part of whose fields were affected by a disease carried by an aphid, jaundice, the National Assembly is studying a very controversial bill on Monday.
The one allowing to reintroduce, for a maximum of three years, neonicotinoids (NNI), an insecticide harmful to bees and banned since 2018. The project arouses the ire of environmentalists who denounce an environmental backpedal.
Especially these believe that the real misfortunes of the sector are due more to its exposure to foreign markets than to damage from a small aphid or the weather.
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Like Yannick Jadot, the French environmentalist MEP who estimated this Monday on Europe 1: "
It is not aphids that are killing beet jobs, it is international competition into which they have been plunged, including officials of the FNSEA.
They act like milk quotas, they think we're going to do a lot
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