The 2021/22 campaign is expected to deliver average sugar beet yields in excess of 80 t/ha, a significant increase on 2020, due to ongoing developments in
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First vaccine for plants in development in bid to end use of poisonous pesticides
This comes as the government approved a bee-toxic pesticide for use this year
Insect decline is linked to the overuse of pesticides
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A treatment for plants which scientists have said acts like a vaccine is under development as researchers battle to end the use of poisonous pesticides.
The National Farmers Union campaigned for sugar beet growers to be able to use Cruiser SB, which tackles the disease Virus Yellows, in order to save this year s crop.
The disease is carried by aphids, which are killed by the neonicotinoid.