Many plants may soon be illegal in France and no one knows what to do

By Michael Le Page

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CROPS which occupy been grown and eaten in France for years could presumably well moreover honest soon turn into unlawful. Farmers will now no longer be in a position to plant them and outlets won’t be in a position to promote them.

As a minimum, that’s what’s supposed to happen later this year. But because this would presumably well be virtually very no longer going to know which kinds are forbidden, it’s miles some distance from certain how issues will pan out.

“I contemplate it’s going to occupy a proper affect on agriculture and plant breeding in France,” says plant biologist Johnathan Napier at Rothamsted Research, UK. This would presumably affect others, too, as France is the largest seed …