'The need for a trajectory to reduce the use of presticides remains,' says France's Agriculture Minister Marc Fesneau during a visit to the Herault region of southern France, insisting that the objective needed to be reworked not scrapped, as the government came under fire for announcing that a 15-year-old plan to stem dependence on insecticides and weedkillers would be put on hold to appease protesting farmers. SOUNDBITE