Campaigners aghast as emergency exemption on use of thiamethoxam granted due to risk to sugar beet crop
A national forecast of the proportion of the crop expected to suffer from virus yellows, a disease spread by aphids, predicted a level of 69%, far above the 19% threshold that had been set.but was not implemented as the forecast for virus yellows turned out to be low. In 2020, according to the government, the virus cut the national yield of sugar beet by a quarter.Photograph: Denis Charlet/AFP/Getty ImagesTrusts.
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