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Mothers Day bonanza as garden centre records are broken across the country - UPDATED
Greenfingers Garden Re-Leaf Days raise over £500,000
Fife garden centre purchased and refurbished
Grange expands Ultimate range following 2016 success
HSBC supports acquisition of Eastleigh garden centre
Keter to take over Stewart Plastics
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Selfie saves Norwich garden centre owners from Westminster carnage
Newshound finds Mr M has been busy recruiting 'experience'...
GIMA announces new Council at AGM
Whitehall Woodborough re-opens after re-fit in time for Mothers Day
Glee and the HTA confirm new three-year agreement
Overseas buyers ready to do business with UK suppliers
Garden leisure market grew 6% last year says new report
Partnership agreement between the Salon du Végétal fair, HTA National Plant Show and HTA Nursery Supply Show
Dutch Design in flowers at the Keukenhof opening
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Plant feeds and lawncare dominate sales
UK warning to Brussels on over-zealous approach to pest products
Young veg plants are a week ahead of schedule
March growing media sales up 32% so far
spoga+gafa 2017: Excellent number of bookings
Garden Press Event moves to the Business Design Centre in 2018
Plant sales flourish
Introducing the Retail Lab @ Glee, in association with the HTA
Flemish pavilion confirmed for Glee 2017
Johnsons Lawn Seed ‘Campaign for Quality’: Size matters
Stewart Garden Schools Campaign grows by 75%
Pictures from the Greatest Christmas Gold-winning teams
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Commercial Kitchen unveils its initial exhibitor list for 2017
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UK warning to Brussels on over-zealous approach to pest products
A stark warning has been issued to MEPs in Brussels against over-zealous and ill-considered banning of important pesticides.

The European Parliament's Agriculture Committee heard the cautionary message from one of Britain's leading growers at a hearing on Sustainable Plant Protection

John Chinn, who is also Chairman of the UK's Centre for Applied Crop Science, was nominated by West Midlands Conservative MEP Anthea McIntyre to make a presentation in the Parliament.  

Mr Chinn said the EU was not performing well in its gauging of risk management when approving or banning plant protection products such as insecticides, herbicides and fungicides.

He told the hearing: "A failure to distinguish between hazard and risk is an essential part of the confusion about perceived threats from or to our environment; in general hazard identification is easy and often speculative; risk evaluation is generally complex and demanding.

"Rational responses are not invariable. There is an extraordinary disregard for well documented risks while others, of marginal significance, distort public and private spending decisions.

"These factors, coupled with a perverse preference for natural toxicity over synthetic safety, lead to an indifferent performance in risk management in the community."

After the hearing, Miss McIntyre said: "It was really good to hear from someone with a wealth of first hand experience, a detailed grasp of the subject and a great deal of common sense - a commodity often in short supply here! Mr Chinn was very polite and very scientifically precise in his language - but he made no secret of his low opinion of some large parts of the EU's performance in this area.

"His basic warning was that effective and low-risk products were being denied to farmers when using them would improve food security and benefit the environment. He concluded by telling the Committee that with new technologies we can achieve the twin goals of increased agricultural production and an enhanced environment.

"I was pleased that his message chimed so closely with my own recent report on Technological Solutions for Sustainable Agriculture which emphasised the need for innovation, new techniques and scientific advances to be adopted across all sectors of agriculture in order to feed a growing population without damaging the environment."
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