Researchers support volunteer farmers to reduce the use of pesticides as well as water-polluting chemical fertilisers, the prices of which are exploding.
In a field in western France, the small purple and white flowers quivering among tender shoots of wheat are a clue that this is not conventional single-crop farmland
In a field in western France, the small purple and white flowers quivering among tender shoots of wheat are a clue that this is not conventional single-crop farmland.
In a field in western France, the small purple and white flowers quivering among tender shoots of wheat are a clue that this is not conventional single-crop farmland. In fact, this whole area is part of scientific work to help farmers cut down on their use of pesticides, herbicides and chemical fertilisers.
In a field in western France, the small purple and white flowers growing among tender shoots of wheat are a clue that this is not conventional single-crop farmland.
The whole area is part of scientific work to help farmers cut down on their use of pesticides, herbicides and chemical fertilizers.
“I felt that these products were dangerous,” farmer David Bonneau said as he hunched over the little wildflowers veronica and hickweed, adding that “the general public is asking for reductions.”
One of his experimental plots is treated the standard way, with chemical weedkiller; another he weeds mechanically with a harrow whose