赛帕萨，这家专门从事农业生物农药、生物刺激素和肥料开发和配方的西班牙公司和瓦伦西亚技术大学 (UPV) 通过地中海农林业研究所 (IAM) 正在致力于开发一种新的生物除草剂。
该项目的目的是开发一种有效、可持续的合成除草剂替代品。它的使用将有助于减少化学除草剂对环境的影响，并防止因过度使用现有解决方案而产生抗药性。
According to Mercedes Verdeguer, a researcher at the IAM, the project has arisen from the need to provide farmers with new tools. “For a long time now, agriculture has been calling for new, more environment-friendly weed control solutions,” she said. “In 2009 there was a change in European legislation aimed at the sustainable use of phytosanitary products and promoting integrated pest management strategies. Since then, active substances have been constantly disappearing, so that it has become more necessary than ever to develop new tools for integrated management.”
Marta Muñoz, Seipasa’s product specialist and a member of the IAM team, has stressed the importance of developing new alternatives in the light of the current situation, in which “resistances are causing increasingly difficult problems and farms have fewer and fewer active substances available because of the tightening of EU regulations.”