How to reduce use of chemicals

• From control to agro-ecological management

  26/01/2013 Administrateur

  From now on, we know that the functioning of ecosystems, including the preservation of biodiversity, is the key for a sustainable integration of agriculture in a long term management of natural resources. Agro-ecology, the study of the interactions between plants, animals, man and environment inside agro-ecosystems, lies on this principle and finds its place in a systemic approach of agriculture.

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• Biological Integrated Protection

  16/12/2011 Sophie Della Mussia

  Biological Integrated Protection helps to keep crops free from pests by giving priority to biological control. When those biological means are not able to control pests or when the cost becomes prohibitive, the chemical products which do not harm beneficial insects, respecting the auxiliaries, natural or introduced, are applied. Those products are said to be “compatible”. The BIP (or PBI, in French) is characterized by keeping an equilibrium between beneficial insects and pests in protected crops.

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• Rational agriculture, a concept respectful of the environment

  04/12/2011 Administrateur

  The agribusiness sector exercises an important pressure on natural resources. The rational agriculture recommands to reduce the use of pesticides to favour methods less harmful to the environment. 

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