INTERVIEW
The two deputies Jean-Luc Fugit (LREM) and Jean-Baptiste Moreau (LREM), presented Wednesday their report on the release of glyphosate by 2021. They think it will be difficult to get out of glyphosate for 2021. Worse, they consider it "unconscious" to wait until December 31, 2020 to know "which cultural situations" will have to stop using the herbicide on January 1, 2021 and which ones will be able to benefit from a delay. The elected officials urge the state to specify the names of crops that will "benefit from a waiver" of glyphosate use, no later than next June.
Julien Dive, MP The Republicans of the Aisne interviewed Saturday by Wendy Bouchard on Europe 1, criticizes the lack of visibility: "We are one year from the deadline and today, all sectors that will be ready to out of glyphosate by 2021 is not identified, there is a failure in the clarity of the strategy ".
"I would like to know who they met"
In this report, the two members also believe that the removal of glyphosate will be very expensive for farmers. According to them, they will need more manpower and make investments in new equipment. "The report specifies that the judgment will generate substantial costs.The total cost for the French grain industry would be 950 million euros," says the president of the National Federation of farmers' unions, Christiane Lambert, also questioned by Europe 1. She wondered: "With the state of the French finances, do you think that the State is ready to pay this sum?"
Surprise and interrogations among opponents of glyphosate: "I would like to know who they met," wonders Jean-David Abel, vice president of France Nature Environment. He questions the work of the two deputies. "It surprises me a lot that parliamentarians have not seen that there are alternative models without glyphosate and that are not on these amounts of inconvenience and extra work".