'Less aggressive' farming: Beet grower uses scent-based repellents to reduce pesticide use

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"We want to be less aggressive towards the plants, the environment, and ourselves," says farmer Benoit Ambeza, who grows beets in the French commune Couin. For two years, he has chosen to use scents developed by a laboratory in Rennes that repel crop pests, thereby delaying "any necessary treatment with phytopharmaceutical products as much as possible".

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00:00what are the pucerons here we can find, it's not a puceron but we find insects on

00:19we want to be a little less aggressive as well as the environment and we

00:31same so the solution that we have been proposed we convened well in this sense

00:38it allows us to intervene on a more preventive than curative with the solutions that we had

00:46until today it allows us to intervene very early on the

00:50parcells and to repousser just at maximum the intervention

00:54eventuels necessary with the phytopharmaceutical products

01:16it's two modes of action completely different when we take a conventional product it's going to be a

01:37coup of massue in fact it's to say that we're going to wait for the problem to be there we're going to do a

01:41épandage and it will reduce the population drastically during a time and then it will go back to agriodeur

01:46it's a completely different approach incior it's a completely different approach we will apply

01:51in preventive the product it will create a cloud of odor in fact around the betterave and it will

01:56mask the odor of the betterave it is appetizing for the puceron so when it arrives with the first

02:00vol globalement il ne va pas voir le chant tout simplement et il va passer son chemin

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