Neuchâtel does not want to prohibit manure on summer

The Neuchâtel Council of State judges “excessive” to carry out a general ban on manure on summer. In its relationship to a motion of the Popvert group on “the biodiversity of the threatened summer”, the government believes that the productivity of these surfaces makes it possible to reduce the livestock load in the plain and to maintain the production capacity of large crops, especially cerealières.

(Keystone-ATS) The Council of State explained that it “is also essential to avoid the abandonment of the summer, this to maintain the quality of the landscape at altitude and prevent burst”, can be read in an extract from the report published on Tuesday.

The government has added that currently, 24% of the surface of the summer is strictly protected, 55% are without external smoke intake and only 21% are subject to a spreading authorization, “which is particularly modest in intercantonal comparison”. These authorizations are issued as a result of field expertise, exclusively allowing manure on naturally the most productive and least rich areas from the point of view of biodiversity.

In its motion posted in November 2020, the PopvertsSol group noted that mountain pastures and summer are one of the last more or less natural spaces where flora and fauna (including insects) are still preserved. He deplored that operators can, in addition to fertilizers produced on the pasture, ask the service of agriculture to spread mineral fertilizers of non -nitrogen synthesis, or manure from other farms.