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Targeted Plant Protection Practices for Agriculture

Learn about the selected and targeted application of plant protection products in agriculture, including thresholds, restrictions, and best practices. Explore ecological cross-compliance policies and instruments, ecological compensation areas, and the protection of nature and cultural heritage.

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Targeted Plant Protection Practices for Agriculture

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  1. Selected and targeted application of plant protection products • Use after reaching of a treshold. • Prohibition of herbicides in cereals after mid-October • Only certain insecticides allowed in potatoes and cereals • No insecticides (sprays) in corn • Limitation of prae-emergence herbicides • Herbicides use in the meadows extremely limited • Choice of products in viticulture and orchards (with the professional organizations) • 6 m distance from surface water • Test of spraying equipment at least every 4 years

  2. Selected and targeted application of plant protection products In this field research and extension are extremely important: • Fixation of treatment thresholds • Forecast models for insects and diseases • Methods to calculate the appropriate quantities of plant protection products • Facilitated access to users; ex: www.agrometeo.ch

  3. Respect of other restrictions related to agriculture: • legislation on water protection • legislation on environment protection

  4. Farmers’ uptake of ecological cross compliance in Switzerland Proof of Ecological Performance PEP voluntary PEP as Cross compliance

  5. Policies and InstrumentsGeneral direct payments () • Payments per hectare for total utilised agricultural area • Payments for roughage consuming animals • Additional payments in hills and mountains for sloping terrain and animals

  6. Policies and InstrumentsEcological direct payments () • Ecological compensation areas (ECA) • Payments for extensive production of cereals and rape-seed: no fungicides, no insecticides (50% and 15% of surfaces) • Organic farming • Payments for animal welfare com- mitments (animal-friendly stables and daily access to open air)

  7. Policies and Instruments Ordinance on Eco-Quality ()(Regional Promotion of Quality and Interlinking of Ecological Compensation Areas) • Poor quality of Ecological Compensation Areas (ECA) • ECA not interlinked •  Ordinance on Eco-Quality • Minimum standards by central government • Voluntary basis • Co-financing: 80% central government, 20% local

  8. Policies and InstrumentsFederal Law on the Protection of Nature and Cultural Heritage • Protection and maintenance of nature and landscape with co-financiation by the central government • Biotopes of national and regional importance (Alluvial zones, mires and dry grasslands)

  9. Thanks for your attention!

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