Polish farmers ask for return of permission to use chlorpyrifos against sugar beet weevil

On the shoots of sugar beet, one can already observe the appearance of a dangerous and increasingly problematic pest for Polish farmers - the common beet weevil. It is difficult to fight it, so farmers are calling for the possibility of using an active substance withdrawn from the EU market for growing beets. They claim that this method is used by Ukrainian farmers, and at the same time sugar is imported from Ukraine to the EU. According to Farmer.pl, we are talking about chlorpyrifos - an active substance that is currently withdrawn from circulation, but, according to farmers, can improve the very difficult situation with the protection of sugar beets. “Every year, sugar beet crops are destroyed by the pest beet weevil (Asproparthenis punctiventris). The first mass cases of the appearance of this pest occurred in 2012 in the Hrubieszów district. Since then, it has spread throughout Poland and causes great damage every year, often forcing producers to replant destroyed crops, ...