Tuesday, 18 August 2020

PRO/PL> Virus yellows, sugar beet - Europe (03)

Other Plant Disease -- Worldwide/Unknown
The French government is planning to lift a blanket ban on the use of neonicotinoids to help save its sugar beet industry. Crops have been ravaged by aphids this year [2020] with widespread yield losses reported across the country. UK beet growers are also experiencing crop losses due to high levels of virus yellows.
The French government announced a series of measures to support the "unprecedented crisis", including for the first time a derogation to use neonic seed treatments for the 2021

Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://healthmap.org/ln.php?7689222&promed&0

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