The French government has released its glyphosate ‘phase-out’ online platform, in an attempt to help farmers across the country to stop using the world’s most used herbicide before 2020.

French President Emmanuel Macron’s office stated that the online platorm has been designed “to have a declarative site where every farmer who wishes can commit themselves either to say that they have already stopped using glyphosate, or to say that they have committed to stop its use in three years.”

Macron himself stated that the platform is for “all farmers who are ready to go sign up, make it visible, put pressure on others, create traceability to say everything is done without glyphosate.”

In parallel with the farmer commitment component on the online platform, the site will offer a ‘glyphosate phase-out’ farmer support component, starting in the first half of 2019, in conjunction with a ‘technical resource bank’ to be launched by the end of 2018.