The reduction of chemical crop protection is and remains a political goal. But what is this supposed to achieve? If there are not false expectations involved.
Organic farming is often seen as the ideal way to meet numerous challenges facing agriculture. Anyway, it is too easy to draw a simple opposition between “organic” and “conventional” - a sustainable agriculture in the long term is needed.
Sugar factories are real „energy guzzlers“ and have a correspondingly large CO2 footprint. But high emissions are also produced in the field and especially during transport. Reducing these costs a lot of money and will take years.
