Ontario to Cut Use of Insecticide Linked to Honeybee Deaths
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Ontario plans to reduce the use of an insecticide that has been linked to bee deaths, making it the first jurisdiction in North America to do so.
Ontario, Canada’s largest producer of corn and soybeans, said today that by 2017 it intends to cut by 80 percent the acreage sown with crop seeds treated with neonicotinoids. If approved, the new rules will be in place by July 1, in time for the 2016 planting season, the government said today in an e-mailed statement.