Portugal: Vineyards and tomatoes will be the crops most affected by pesticide cuts

Published 2023년 6월 20일

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The European Commission has forecasted that the reduction of pesticides will likely impact crops like vines, hops, and tomatoes, but poses no threat to food security. The prediction is based on the potential effects on crop productivity, food prices, import dependence, and export rates. The Commission emphasizes that the reduction can be targeted towards crops that contribute less to food security, without impacting food availability or prices. The report, however, criticizes a lack of empirical data on pesticide use and challenges the assumptions of a fixed 50% reduction in all crops and pesticides. It also notes that there is sufficient time and tools to meet the 2030 targets for reducing chemical pesticides, despite some uncertainties about the cost burdens on small and medium-sized farms.

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The European Commission predicts that crops such as vines, hops and tomatoes will be the most affected by cutting pesticides, but points out that they are crops with “little or no impact on food security”. The revelation appears in the additional impact assessment requested by the ministers of the member states and to which the Euractiv portal had access. In the 218-page draft, it is explained that the potential impact on food prices, as well as the dependence on imports and the reduction in exports “are […] dependent on the impacts on crop productivity”. However, the study points out that the greatest impacts will be “on crops that play a minor role in food security, such as vines, hops and tomatoes”. The document underlines that farmers and Member States were given the option to “prioritize the reduction of pesticides on crops that have little or no impact on food security […] thus contributing to reduction targets without any impact on food security , food production, ...

Source: PTvidarural