The government will
“pause”
the Ecophyto plan which must set objectives for reducing the use of pesticides and crystallizes the anger of producers of large crops, announced Thursday the Minister of Agriculture Marc Fesneau.
“We are therefore going to rework the Ecophyto plan, putting it on hold, while we rework a certain number of aspects and simplify it
,” declared Marc Fesneau during a press conference.
Prime Minister Gabriel Attal had said a little more that Ecophyto would be
“shut down while it put in place a new indicator”
, while the central indicator of the plan, the Nodu which measures the use of molecules by farmers, is contested by agricultural organizations.