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| Title: | THE ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS OF ADOPTING IPM TECHNIQUES: THE CASE OF PEACH PRODUCERS |
| Authors: | Fernandez-Cornejo, Jorge
Ferraioli, Jennifer |
| Keywords: | biological techniques
cultural techniques
integrated pest management
peach production
pesticide use
self-selection
toxicity |
| Issue Date: | 1999-12 |
| Abstract: | The impact of adopting integrated pest management (IPM) techniques is examined for peach producers in eight states accounting for most of the U.S. production. The method accounts for self-selectivity, simultaneity, and the pesticide demand equations are theoretically consistent with a restricted-profit function. Biological pest management techniques tend to reduce pesticide use and pesticide toxicity substantially, while pesticide-efficiency techniques (using scouting and economic thresholds) have an increasing effect on pesticide use and toxicity, and cultural techniques have an insignificant effect on pesticide use and toxicity. |
| URI: | http://purl.umn.edu/15148 |
| Institution/Association: | Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics>Volume 31, Number 03, December 1999 |
| Total Pages: | 14 |
| Language: | English |
| From Page: | 551 |
| To Page: | 564 |
| Collections: | Volume 31, Number 03, December 1999
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