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Arcey. A state-of-the-art weeder to significantly reduce water pollution

Arcey. A state-of-the-art weeder to significantly reduce water pollution

Funded by the Pays de Montbéliard Agglomération, this agricultural machine, which combines a cultivator and a targeted spraying system, helps address the pesticide problem upstream by reducing their volume. It crisscrosses the cornfields around the Beaumette catchment, which supplies twelve municipalities and 6,600 residents.

For quality water, a major public health issue, to travel from its underground source to our taps, we have to drive... like a weeder .

This agricultural machine combines a mechanical hoe, which removes weeds between the rows, with a localized spraying system on the row. Packed with technology (sensors, GPS, colorimetric cameras, etc.), it can reduce by three to four the quantity of phytosanitary products (herbicides, pesticides) usually spread on cultivated plots.

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Pays de Montbéliard Agglomeration (PMA) has just acquired one (103,800 euros excluding tax) in order to...

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