The endeavour aims to hasten the transition to biodegradable plastics, as well as save Hokkaido’s historic sugar beet industry. Kusano Sakko’s bacterial nanocellulose, patented and sold as ...

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This week, the Government refused an emergency application for the use of the neonicotinoid pesticide Cruiser SB on sugar beet – a crop which has been beset with virus yellows, a disease ...

Sugar beet growers have hit out at a government ban on a pesticide used on sugar beet crops as "another blow" to the industry. The government has turned down British Sugar's emergency application ...

The Government has refused to allow the emergency use of a banned pesticide on sugar beet to protect bees and other pollinators. The application to use the pesticide had been made by British Sugar ...