Research into alternatives to neonicotinoid pesticides, found to be toxic to bees, is unlikely to deliver a solution capable of fully protecting sugar beet crops for five years, a leading French scientist said.
After the beet yellows virus carried by aphids reduced the French harvest by 30% in 2020, and farmers and sugar makers lobbied the government, France suspended a European Union ban on neonicotinoids until 2023 and launched a research programme to find alternatives to the chemical in the meantime.
"We will not have protection levels as efficient as neonicotinoids for another five years," she added. Maupas said any solution was likely to comprise a combination of several techniques and products and would not be as simple as neonicotinoids that are applied as a coating around seeds., are working on new sugar beet varieties that would be protected from aphids and the yellows virus, but developing new seeds tends to take years.
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