The Future Role of Pesticides in US Agriculture by National Research Council

Author:National Research Council
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Agriculture : Pesticides, Insecticides and Herbicides
Publisher: NATIONAL ACADEMY PRESS
Published: 2000-11-02T00:00:00+00:00

Legislated Reductions in Pesticide Use

Several factors continue to provide an opportunity to develop safer products with the same efficacy as chemicals. Societal concerns about chemical pesticides—including worker safety, animal toxicity, and groundwater contamination—continue to increase in the United States and around the world. Northern European countries (Denmark, Sweden, and Netherlands) have legislated a 50% reduction by the year 2000 for farm uses of chemical pesticides. Switzerland pays farmers large subsidies to farm organically and provides minimal or no subsidies to farmers who use chemical pesticides in their crop-production systems. Many Asian countries have banned classes of toxic chemicals. The Clinton administration has stated that, by the year 2000, 75% of US farmers should be practicing IPM; and it has initiated programs to help farmers to reduce use of synthetic pesticides (Coble 1998).

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