UK allows emergency use of bee-harming neonicotinoid pesticide
The UK government has authorised the emergency use of a type of pesticide almost entirely banned in the EU because of…
According to the National Farmers’ Union (NFU), there are 3,000 farmers who grow sugar beet, and the wider industry supports around 9,500 jobs in England, largely in the East. To minimise risks to bees, farmers will be banned from growing flowering plants for 32 months after the sugar beet crop.
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