2024-05-05 12:38:23
BOLZANO. According to the National Environmental Institute Isprain Trentino Alto Adige they are applied further 40 kg of pesticides per hectare, while the Italian average recorded is only 6 kg per hectare. It is reported by South Tyrol Environmentalists Federation who supports the group”Stop pesticides Alto Adige-Südtirol“. “In this way, every year enormous quantities of pesticides end up in the environment, of which due to drift a considerable part reaches areas not intended for them”, he states Elisabeth Ladinservice-president of the Federation.
“Pesticide residues – reports a note – they have already been found in homes, gardens, children’s playgrounds, organic cultivation areas and protected biotopes“. Regardless of the risks to human health, pesticides are seriously harmful to the world of wild insects.
“Wild bees, butterflies and many other groups of insects are disappearing from our landscape, with far-reaching negative consequences for all other species – he explains Hanspeter Stafflerdirector general of the Federation – To put an end to this serious situation of species going extinct, we urgently need to start the ecological change in agriculture”.
Even if in so-called “integrated” fruit growing the use of pesticides is defined as the last of the measures to be adopted, in reality, environmentalists maintain, “South Tyrolean fruit companies are far from it”. “The use of glyphosate could immediately be eliminated because there are mechanical alternatives,” says Staffler.
“Fruit cooperatives could take example from wine cooperatives who have made the elimination of glyphosate attractive through financial incentives for their members”, concludes Ladinser.
2024-05-05 12:38:23