The pesticide air spraying is returning to France. On Wednesday, April 9, Parliament definitely adopted a bill aimed at “improving the treatment of diseases that affect plant crops that use piloted planes at a distance”, opening the possibility of using drones to spray certain specific pesticides.
The measure is applied to the steep suddenly with slopes greater than 20%, vines portraits and all banana plantations located mainly in Guadalupe and Martinica, foreign French territories in the Caribbean. The legislation allows the use of airplanes only for biocontrol products (pheromones, microorganisms, etc.), substances allowed in organic agriculture and pesticides consult “low risk” by European regulations. The bill was approved by a large majority in Sénat, after being adopted at the end of January by the National Assembly, where most of the left voted against.
In continental France, the measure “refers mainly to certain vineyards, partly in Beaujolais, Alsacia or Pyrénées-Oriental,” explained Henri Cabanel, a socialist legislator and the rapporto of the bill in Sénat. “In the steep terrain, the manual application of treatments is arduous and dangerous,” said Jean-Luc Fugit, deputy of the Renaissance of the Presidential Party and author of the bill. Fugit added that “using drones is safer and studies by ANSES [the French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health & Safety] They have shown that this operator exposure is reduced. “According to Fugit, drones also allow us to intervene more rapidly that are spread to access and reduce the amounts of sprinkled substances.
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