pesticides
Cyprus is looking forward to the adoption of a ‘rational’ compromise for pesticides regulation, the House of Representatives announced on Tuesday. Agriculture committee chairman, Giannakis...
Pesticides should be used as a last resort
Even with the known risks to health and ecosystems, conventional agriculture is hooked on chemical pesticides Things are better than they used to be on...
Agricultural policy: a new era for Cyprus and Europe
The European Commission has acknowledged some tweaking is necessary to their original regulation limiting pesticide use, but farmers must acknowledge change is coming By Alexandra...
Agriculture Minister to discuss pesticide use directive at EU Council
The sustainable use of pesticide regulation in the EU will be among the topics discussed at the Agriculture and Fisheries Ministers Council, which is taking place...
‘Fake facts’ on the EU’s Nature Restoration Law
EU effort to bring in an ambitious plan to restore natural systems has taken a battering in Cyprus and elsewhere in the bloc Nature restoration...
Our View: Must Cyprus farmers pay price for rushed green policies?
Farmers were on the streets again on Monday, making a nuisance of themselves, some might say, over EU regulations designed to cut pesticides, a very...
Farmers to protest proposed pesticide ban
Cypriot farmers plan to protest against the proposal to further limit the use of hazardous pesticides across the European Union, saying this will bring “huge...
Ready to discuss reduction of pesticide use, says health commissioner
Commissioner for health and food safety, Stella Kyriakidou, said there is a need for EU member states to promptly agree on regulations for agricultural pesticide...
Pesticide sales in Cyprus edge down over 2011-2020
The sale of pesticides in Cyprus has edged down in the past ten years, according to the latest figures released by Eurostat. These showed that...
Eurostat: Cyprus has highest increase in pesticide sales in EU
Cyprus increased its total sales of pesticides by 101 per cent between 2011 and 2019, by far the highest increase in the EU, the latest...