The Agriculture & Progress Platform invites you to breakfast on Integrated Pest Management & Plant Protection, where agricultural stakeholders will provide insights into good practices and innovative developments to get ready to achieve the ambitious objectives set in the Green Deal & the upcoming Farm-to-Fork Strategy.

The event is part of our breakfast cycle series on sustainable agriculture and is hosted by MEP Anne Sander on 23 January 2020 from 8:00h at the European Parliament (JAN 6Q1).

To register, please follow this link: 

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdfI1gd2w3OdGT68lQKJzFOvjU1LCMx4YEpajcKua3FL0-43g/viewform. 

Please find the full programme below.

·        Opening statement by MEP Anne Sander

o   How to address the challenges the farming community faces with existing & new technical and regulatory tools 

·        Alexander Krick, Deputy Secretary General, International Confederation of European Beet Growers (CIBE)

o   Good Practices Plant Protection: how sugar beet growers make optimal use of all plant protection techniques

·        Céline Duroc,  Director General,  French General Association of Maize Producers (AGPM)

o   Addressing the challenges the maize producers face when growing their crops

·        Panel of testimonials on best practices

o   Franck Laborde, Secretary General AGPM

o   Alexandre Quillet, President of the Technical Institute of Beet in France (ITB) and farmer

·        Q&A with the audience

·        Closing remarks by MEP Anne Sander