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Data Banks on Pesticides: A Feasibility Study 1)
Author(s) -
SCHOLTEN K.F.
Publication year - 1979
Publication title -
eppo bulletin
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.327
H-Index - 36
eISSN - 1365-2338
pISSN - 0250-8052
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2338.1979.tb02277.x
Subject(s) - government (linguistics) , variety (cybernetics) , business , flexibility (engineering) , agriculture , service (business) , discipline , pesticide , environmental resource management , environmental planning , public relations , marketing , computer science , political science , management , environmental science , agronomy , philosophy , linguistics , artificial intelligence , law , economics , biology , ecology
Pesticide management is characterized, in terms of government responsibility, by an increasing need for flexibility to cope with fast change in science, technology, agricultural practice and environmental policy. The feasibility study in question was started at the end of 1974, when it became clear that the variety of conventional information systems often caused delay, especially in the administrative follow–up of the official procedures with which government is involved. This concerns approval and registration as well as providing pesticide information to quite a variety of interested parties, such as industry, importers, dealers, users of pesticides and government agencies (Plant Protection Service, Extension Services, Public Health and Environment Authorities, Labour Inspectorate, etc.). The computer–based pesticide management information system which is being developed now by a multi–disciplinary project–group should meet the needs of all those having government responsibility in the field of pesticide management. It is planned as an on–line, geographically dispersed retrieval and storage system with terminal facilities for all users. The system is to be controlled by the Pesticides Bureau of the interdepartmental Committee for Phytopharmacy.