They took the floor to express their anger.
But also to alert the authorities and the population.
In the Perche, organic farmers had to destroy part of their buckwheat crops.
The reason ?
They discovered traces of prosulfocarb, a pesticide used in so-called "conventional" agriculture.
The "contamination" would have taken place in Nocé, in Orne.
According to France 3 Normandie, sixteen farmers out of the twenty-two in the Biocer cooperative have experienced such a mishap.
One of the farmers interviewed, based in Eure-et-Loire, declared that one of the lots examined exceeded “100 times the authorized dose”.
According to her, her buckwheat was not even usable in conventional, or even in plant cover.
All of his harvest was destroyed.
Affected farmers do not yet have any certainty about the origin of this pollution.
To compensate them, their insurers however require to know the origin.
The law requires a distance of at least 500 m to spray this highly volatile herbicide.
In fact, it seems that it is spreading much further.
The cooperative wrote to the Ministry of Agriculture to ask it to better supervise, or even to prohibit its use, specifies France 3.
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