According to the 1979 Vegetable Pesticide Survey, nearly 4.6 million pounds of pesticides were used to control weeds, insects, diseases, and nematodes on six vegetable crops in Florida. The six vegetable crops included cabbage, celery, lettuce, sweet corn, tomatoes, and watermelon. About 4.6 million acre-treatments were made ranging from 2.2 million for tomatoes to 148,800 for cabbage.
Details
Title
1979 Pesticide Use on Florida Vegetables, A Preliminary Report
Record Identifier
https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/333793
Language
English
Total Pages
32
Note
As part of a national survey of pesticide use on vegetables, about 400 Florida vegetable growers were personally interviewed by the Economics and Statistics Service to collect data on specific pesticides used, acres treated, methods of application, and target pests controlled in 1979. A systematic random sample design was used to select growers. Data were expanded for individual farms in the survey to reflect all farms by multiplying the sample data by the inverse of the sample ratio for the state. The pesticide use data were then adjusted by the ratio of the number of acres of each crop grown in the state to the number of expanded sample acres for each crop grown.
