Farmers Roll Hundreds of Tractors to Paris to Protest Pesticide Ban
- EU ban on neonicotinoids threatens to hurt sugar production
- French farmers protest against ban, other environmental rules
Tractors during a protest against a European ban on controversial pesticides at the Esplanades des Invalides, in Paris, France, on Feb. 8.
Photographer: Bertrand Guay/AFP/Getty Images
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French farmers drove hundreds of tractors to Paris to protest a European ban on controversial pesticides that threatens sugar output, as well as other agricultural regulations.
France has backtracked on a plan to allow the continued use of neonicotinoids — a type of pesticide considered harmful to bees — after last month’s European Union court ruling against such exemptions. Growers say that the ban and implementation of other environmental measures will make crop production more difficult.