BCPC joins the drive to protect pollinators
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| Publisher | Milling & Grain |
| Year of publication | 2016 September |
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| Medium | Digital |
| Edition | 1 |
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| Scope & content | One of the priorities of the Voluntary Initiative (VI) is to minimise the risk to bees and other pollinators. The Crop Protection Association (CPA), working with the NFU and the British Beekeepers Association, has developed a new VI tool – Bee Connected. This web-based alert system enables spray operators to alert local beekeepers of planned insecticide applications. To ensure beekeepers are only notified of a relevant spray event, as well as the timing and name of the active ingredient(s), the alert includes the distance and direction of the planned spray event as well as detailed information about the active ingredient(s)…Read more. |
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