Post by account_disabled on Mar 13, 2024 0:42:07 GMT -5
Diseases and weeds are a daily reality for farmers. Asking them to abandon pesticides overnight would lead to huge crop loss and economic hardship, so many charities believe slowly phasing them out is the only option. There are natural alternatives, though. A PAN UK project on phasing out HHPs (highly hazardous pesticides) in Costa Rica with the National University’s Institute for Research on Toxic Substances found that non-chemical alternatives were just as effective as the pesticide ethoprophos, and actually cheaper. PAN UK’s more recent 2022 paper also shows that agriculture without paraquat – one of the most acutely toxic herbicides in the world – is feasible without loss of productivity. Some pioneering pineapple farms in Costa Rica are already phasing out HHPs: “Fertinyc came to our pineapple project workshop and seem to be doing some good work on soil health and use of biological products,” says Williamson. “Their own in-house microbiology labs now help produce some of these biological agents.” Another farm is Nicoverde, which has replaced 80 percent of its former pesticide use with biological alternatives. “They no longer use paraquat at all and 100 smaller scale pineapple producers they’ve worked with no longer do either,” Williamson adds. “Instead, they're chopping up the pineapple foliage after the fruits are harvested and breaking it down with microbes.
This gets the waste to rot down much quicker, which means it's no longer a suitable place for stable flies to breed.” Another good start would be for Europe to stop producing and exporting toxic pesticides they’ve already banned for use in their own countries. Italy, Belgium, Denmark and the UK have all exported chlorothalonil to Costa Rica since ping domestic bans on the substance in 2019, according to official Costa Rican customs data analysed by Unearthed and Public Eye. In 2020, the UK actually shipped more than 10,000 tonnes of banned BYB Directory pesticides overseas – including paraquat, chlorothalonil and propiconazole, known for harming babies in the womb. The Swiss-headquartered pesticides giant Syngenta accounted for more than a quarter (26 percent) of all the chlorothalonil products imported into Costa Rica between 2020 and 2022. The company – which has a UK paraquat factory in Huddersfield, despite being banned for UK use since 2007 – is currently facing hundreds of lawsuits in the.
From farmers who developed Parkinson’s disease after using their paraquat. The herbicide causes tens of thousands of poisoning deaths worldwide and Unearthed’s investigation found that this UK factory sends most of its paraquat to the U.S. News Biden Might Finally Ban a Pesticide that Studies Say Poisoned Kids' Brains for Decades The European Commission recently promised to end its exports of banned pesticides, but the UK has remained silent. Prior to Brexit, the UK was by far the EU’s biggest exporter of banned pesticides, and despite government promises to maintain standards post-Brexit, we are falling behind by permitting the use of 36 more pesticides than the EU do, according to PAN UK. What can we do? Ultimately, us consumers really do have the final say. If we decide we no longer want chemically grown pineapples and stop buying them, the producers will have to adapt to the market.
This gets the waste to rot down much quicker, which means it's no longer a suitable place for stable flies to breed.” Another good start would be for Europe to stop producing and exporting toxic pesticides they’ve already banned for use in their own countries. Italy, Belgium, Denmark and the UK have all exported chlorothalonil to Costa Rica since ping domestic bans on the substance in 2019, according to official Costa Rican customs data analysed by Unearthed and Public Eye. In 2020, the UK actually shipped more than 10,000 tonnes of banned BYB Directory pesticides overseas – including paraquat, chlorothalonil and propiconazole, known for harming babies in the womb. The Swiss-headquartered pesticides giant Syngenta accounted for more than a quarter (26 percent) of all the chlorothalonil products imported into Costa Rica between 2020 and 2022. The company – which has a UK paraquat factory in Huddersfield, despite being banned for UK use since 2007 – is currently facing hundreds of lawsuits in the.
From farmers who developed Parkinson’s disease after using their paraquat. The herbicide causes tens of thousands of poisoning deaths worldwide and Unearthed’s investigation found that this UK factory sends most of its paraquat to the U.S. News Biden Might Finally Ban a Pesticide that Studies Say Poisoned Kids' Brains for Decades The European Commission recently promised to end its exports of banned pesticides, but the UK has remained silent. Prior to Brexit, the UK was by far the EU’s biggest exporter of banned pesticides, and despite government promises to maintain standards post-Brexit, we are falling behind by permitting the use of 36 more pesticides than the EU do, according to PAN UK. What can we do? Ultimately, us consumers really do have the final say. If we decide we no longer want chemically grown pineapples and stop buying them, the producers will have to adapt to the market.