The European Commission proposed on 27 April a ban on the use – in open air – of three neonicotinoids clothianidin, imidacloprid and thiamethoxam.
These substances have already been under partial ban for several years and have been subject of muc…
Raise your own: beekeeping in France
[multilanguage_switcher]How about raising your own bees. France actively encourages it. Our local hippy bio farmer lives amidst his various bio crops at the edge of the village. When I went to pick up my weekly basket of his latest fruit and ve…
France votes in ban on neonicotinoids
The ban in France on neonicotinoids takes effect on 1st September 2018. Dispensations for farmers will be possible up to July 2020. Industrial giants Bayer and Syngenta warn of economic and agricultural deadlock while there are no plausible