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The realities of pesticide use
Author(s) -
Berry Colin
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
pest management science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.296
H-Index - 125
eISSN - 1526-4998
pISSN - 1526-498X
DOI - 10.1002/1526-4998(200011)56:11<947::aid-ps223>3.0.co;2-5
Subject(s) - risk analysis (engineering) , agriculture , pesticide , business , yield (engineering) , risk management , set (abstract data type) , environmental resource management , environmental planning , computer science , environmental science , biology , ecology , materials science , finance , metallurgy , programming language
The objectives of Integrated Crop Management will be readily endorsed by all those working in agriculture and by those with concerns about the human or environmental effects of pesticides. The absence of demonstrable effects in man means that systems that identify benefit to human beings from this new approach will be difficult to devise; environmental and yield objectives are more likely to deliver measurable outcomes. If we fail to produce and apply a consensus‐based set of measurement objectives to ICM this management system will generate objections similar to those that apply to current schemes of risk evaluation. © 2000 Society of Chemical Industry