Roll-back of neonic ban clears next hurdle Europe France

摘要

Lawmakers on October 6, 2020 approved a draft bill allowing sugar beet growers to use neonicotinoids, a group of pesticides that were banned in 2018 to protect honeybees. Agriculture Minister Julien Denormandie told the National Assembly during heated debates on the draft bill that it was designed to protect France's self-sufficiency in sugar and was not anti-environmental.