Future pathways towards sustainable crop protection in greenhouse horticulture: Anticipating consequences of the Farm to Fork Strategy

In this report, we present an analysis of the consequences of the European authorization policy for plant protection products within the context of the implementation of the Farm to Fork Strategy for Dutch greenhouse horticulture. We analyse European and Dutch crop protection policy and explore the consequences of the expected decrease in the number of approved plant protection products for five crops: tomato, cucumber, gerbera, chrysanthemum and Phalaenopsis. Based on these cases, we make an analysis for the entire greenhouse horticulture sector. Afterwards, we provide an overview of current and future developments in sustainable crop protection methods. Finally, we present conditions that can be imposed on the government, suppliers, buyers, researchers and advisers, and the greenhouse horticulture sector itself, which contribute to a setting in which greenhouse growers are able to continue to make crop protection more sustainable in an economically responsible manner.