File | Crop protection

For crops other than lilies grown in the vicinity of Natura 2000 areas, no nature permit is required. Silvio Erkens, State Secretary for LVVN, confirmed this in a letter. Advocacy group NAV feared a precedent following a ruling by the Council of State in 2025.

Pressure on rural areas is increasing. New homes are needed, villages want to expand, and old farmsteads are being repurposed. But as soon as new construction gets closer to agricultural land, one question arises more and more frequently: how much space must remain between a home and a plot where crop protection products are used?

Parkinson's patient Rendert Algra (62) is astonished that Brussels is significantly relaxing pesticide rules. He said this in the December 18 edition of the Telegraaf newspaper. Algra is convinced that he became ill because he worked with the herbicide glyphosate for years. Algra is quite a mouthful.

The use of crop protection products in Dutch agriculture has declined sharply over the past twelve years, according to new figures from Statistics Netherlands (CBS). Total use of active ingredients in 2024 amounted to 3,9 million kilos, a decrease of almost a third compared to 2012 (5,76 million kilos).

China produced an estimated 2,3 million tons of crop protection products last year, accounting for over 60% of global production, according to a RaboResearch report.

The implementation of the legal requirement for closed filling systems for spray equipment has been postponed by one year, to 2027. Due to the cabinet's collapse, the decision-making process has been delayed, but the sector is urging people not to wait. Read more about the benefits, standards, and practical implementation.

New findings from Germany show that the leafhopper, which transmits the dreaded Stolbur disease, among other diseases, can also cause significant damage to onions. A quarter of all German sugar beets have already been affected. Tens of thousands of hectares of potato crops have already been infected.

Hof van Twente will ban ornamental horticulture, such as lily cultivation, in its municipality. The municipal executive has been instructed to prepare a preliminary decision aimed at banning non-organic ornamental horticulture.