After the government's decision to pause the Écophyto plan (aimed at reducing the use of pesticides by 50% by 2030, compared to the 2015-2017 period, a request from the FNSEA and Young Farmers), the Non-governmental organizations fear that farmers will slacken in their efforts to use fewer pesticides.
If the post-war context, with food shortages, pushed agronomists to create chemical molecules to produce more, since the end of the 1990s and the overproduction of agricultural foodstuffs in Europe, a change in mentalities has taken place. clearly operated.
Awareness of the side effects on the environment and human health has changed the behavior of farmers - who are also the first people exposed to these products -, contrary to what environmentalists might say or lead people to believe.
Also accusing them of being polluters seems caricatured.
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