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Targets - Best Practice

Environmental targets such as improving water quality and biodiversity can take a long time to change; the VI targets recognise this and uses surrogates such as training and crop protection management plans to track progress towards the wider environmental improvements sought by the Voluntary Initiative. For the sake of clarity farmer, adviser and manufacturer targets are simplified and summarised below. The main VI Indicators and Targets paper is the authoritative source of information on all current VI targets.
Indicator Target
(by 31 March of year*)
  31 Mar 2004 31 Mar 2005 31 Mar 2006
BETA qualified agronomists 100 400 750
Farm Environmental Management - Crop Protection Certificate qualified farmers 100 500 1250
Environmental Information sheets published 250 450 550* (estimate)
Crop Protection Management Plan area (Ha) 200,000 (5% arable area) 900,000 (22.5% arable area) 1,200,000 (30% arable area)
NROSO Members 15,000 (60% arable area) 17,500 (70% arable area) 17,500 (70% arable area)
Half Day Operator Roadshow events 90 120 150
Number of revised product labels Not possible at this time to predict All professional pesticides marketed by CPA members. As 2004/5
Active agronomists on Professional Register (CPA distributor staff only) 100% compliance As 2003/4 As 2003/4
NSTS Tests 5,000 (20% arable area) 10,000 (50% arable area) 20,900 (80% arable area)
Most of the Voluntary Initiative targets which relate to changing behaviour or which act as surrogates coincide with the Voluntary Initiative year. This runs from 1 April to 31 March.