“We hope the consumer will advertise us”

Viticulturalist, Michelle Manes works within the household farm, fifteen hectares which produces round 120,000 bottles, primarily white. This exit from glyphosate will pressure him to spend money on machines to weed, “two completely different machines, says she, one who works the land, who plows and one who has her sons who minimize the grass instantly “. funding “runs between eight,000 and 16,000 euros per machine, twice, so between 30,000 and 35,000 euros”, she calculates.

In Luxembourg, the glyphosate exit plan depends on monetary help. For 2 years, the winegrowers obtain 50 euros per hectare, plus 20% of the worth of the machines they’ve to purchase. They hope to be there, says Josy Glauden, president of the biggest cooperative in Luxembourg. It got here out of glyphosate three years in the past.

It’s clear that the buyer is speaking an increasing number of about glyphosate, that it’s destructive, that it’s dangerous, that it’s most cancers and so on …Josy Glauden, winegrowerat franceinfo

“That's why we made the choice to cease, he continues. We hope that the buyer may also promote that we not use. Ultimately, it’s for the buyer to take Luxembourg bottles from the shelf and say: 'Ah, these in Luxembourg are with out glyphosate'!“Josy Glauden didn’t have to rent to handle this weeding. In accordance with him, it barely elevated his workload. However he treats 5% of his property with herbicides. This stays approved for plots which are troublesome to entry.

Luxembourg has round 1,300 hectares of vines. A drop of water in comparison with France, which also plans to release glyphosate from subsequent 12 months.