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The PRCD and the Challenges of Proposed Pesticide Reductions of 50%
Category: Government & Organizations
Duration: 00:20:20
Publish Date: 2020-06-25 06:00:00
Description: Gordon Rennick, PRCD, for the Department of Agriculture and Marine joined Michael Hennessy on the Tillage Edge podcast this week.  Gordon explained that PRCD stands for the Pesticide Registration and Control Division of the Department of Agriculture and the unit has a wide range of roles from registering pesticides, residue testing, inspecting retail and farmers along with a host of other diverse work.  Gordon is involved with the registration of plant protection products (PPP) in Ireland and he mentioned the decrease of new actives coming up for registration from 30-40 per year, 20 years ago, to only 1-2 per year in more recent times. He mentioned the importance of Integrated Pest Management in protecting PPP products but said there is a limit to the contribution of cultural control methods and good IPM includes PPP’s as part of control strategies.  The Farm to Fork policy document mention reductions of pesticides of 50% which Gordon says will be very challenging, and if implemented fully, yield reductions and quality are inevitable for Irish farmers.   Ultimately this is a political issue but the very existence of a tillage sector in Ireland is at stake with these new proposals. For more episodes and information from the Tillage Edge podcast go to https://www.teagasc.ie/crops/crops/the-tillage-edge-podcast/ The Tillage Edge is a co-production with LastCastMedia.
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