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This news article was originally written in Spanish. It has been automatically translated for your convenience. Reasonable efforts have been made to provide an accurate translation, however, no automated translation is perfect nor is it intended to replace a human translator. The original article in Spanish can be viewed at La industria fitosanitaria europea intensifica las medidas para proteger el agua

The phytosanitary ware industry European intensifies the measures to protect the water

04/05/2012

4 May 2012

The past week, more than 90 representatives of the European administration, centres of investigation, associations of agriculturalists and phytosanitary ware industries and of the water, gave appointment in Brussels with occasion of the celebration of a workshop on the project TOPPs Prowadis, organised by European Crop Protection (ECPA), to debate and exchange opinions on the solutions and measures headed to mitigate the pollution by the use of phytosanitary ware products of the pertinent water of diffuse sources, these are derives it in the moment of the treatments or the escorrentía or back erosion from the fields of crop.

In this sense, Philippe Costrop, manager of the project, explained that in the Project TOPPs Prowadis have elaborated a series of 'Best practices', with recommendations, tools of diagnostic and formative and informative material to help to the agriculturalists in his effort for avoiding losses of phytosanitary ware products that could reach and contaminate the waters, subterranean or superficial. The Project TOPPS-Prowadis, collects the witness of his predecessor, the successful Project TOPPs (Train the Operators to prevent Pollution from Point Sources), whose aim was the learning of users to warn the pollution of the pertinent waters of punctual sources, and pretends to arrive to 350.000 agriculturalists and aplicadores, being planned that participate seven countries (Germany, Belgium, Denmark, Spain, France, Italy and Poland), with a budget of two million euros funded in his whole by the integrated cheese cheese phytosanitary ware industry in ECPA. “The studies have showed that with simple measures directed to mitigate the risks of pollution and the follow-up of some Phytosanitary ware Best practices, is possible to warn 80% of the pollutions. Of this way, small changes in the behaviour of the agriculturalists have a significant impact in the quality of the water”, signalled Friedhmen Schmider, general director of ECPA.

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“The sustainable management of the resources hídricos is fundamental. We need the water for human consumption and also to cultivate foods, that to his time have to be protected of the plagues and illnesses that loom them, what fortunately achieves thanks to the phytosanitary ware products, the medicines of our crops, that allow us produce foods of efficient way, guaranteeing the profitability of the harvests, without damage of the quality of the water and avoiding stray unnecessary of this valuable resource”, affirmed Carlos Dovecot, general director of AEPLA, that assisted to the day. Also they were present the coordinator of the project in Spain, the Dr. Emilio Gil, of the Polytechnical University of Catalonia, and Emilio González and Julio Román, of the University of Córdoba.

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