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Pesticides ban

Georgina Downs accuses NFU and others of distorting the truth, but I've just sat in the car listening to PM on Radio 4 on which she implied that yields from organic crops will be little different to those of conventional crops and therefore the removal of pesticides will have no impact on productivity.

As an impartial journalist I prefer to deal in the facts and really Georgina if you want to engage in credible debate you should at least get a grip of reality.

One can argue about how many pesticides will be affected and whether those ones are important to UK/EU agriculture or not, but to imply farmers get comparable yields from organic as conventional is just plain misleading.

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