Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 20123
Sugar Beet: Disease Control
Tabled: 13 December 2024
Answered: 23 December 2024
Question
Helen Maguire
Liberal Democrat — Epsom and Ewell
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what support his Department provides farmers to (a) research and (b) implement natural defences to aphids instead of neonicotinoid pesticides.
Answer
Emma HardyThe UK Government has provided research funding through the Farming Futures Fund to look at the potential for precision breeding in producing virus-resistant varieties of sugar beet. Separately, the British Beet Research Organisation is operating an indus...
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