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Work aimed at anticipating the withdrawal of the highest concern active substances and reinforcing the mobilisation of the stakeholders concerned to broaden the range of solutions available to farmers to enable them to maintain a good level of crop protection was launched on 2 May 2023, jointly by several ministries, including that of Agriculture and Food Sovereignty.
This work emphasises a sectoral approach. Working groups led by the general directorate for food (DGAL) have been set up:
- Field crops (cereals, oil and protein crops, sugar beet, potatoes),
- Fruit and vegetables,
- Aromatic and medicinal plants,
- Vines,
- Horticulture,
- Seeds,
- Ultra-marine crops and
- Organic crops.
The work will consist of sharing with these sectors the European timetable for the withdrawal of active substances, targeting the most threatened uses, identifying the range of available alternatives whose effectiveness is recognised, analysing their degree of maturity, deploying them and, for some of them, intensifying research and innovation actions, particularly within the framework of France 2030. Specialists from ANSES and INRAE and experts from the DGAL will work in these working groups with the technical institutes and interprofessional groups concerned, so that the sectors are able to propose chemical and non-chemical alternative techniques to farmers, to replace threatened active substances.
This action plan is the first component of the Ecophyto 2030 plan, announced by the Prime Minister at the International Agricultural Show on 27 February, and which should be finalised in autumn 2023 .
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