Progress report: Vice President's task force on pest control alternatives: Overview
Abstract Not Available – First paragraph follows: Pest management practices in California's food, fiber, and forest production system are in transition. Though dominated by synthetic organic pesticides in the two decades immediately following World War II, pest control p...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources
1990-07-01
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| Series: | California Agriculture |
| Online Access: | http://calag.ucanr.edu/archive/?article=ca.v044n04p11 |
| Summary: | Abstract Not Available – First paragraph follows:
Pest management practices in California's food, fiber, and forest production system
are in transition. Though dominated by synthetic organic pesticides in the two decades
immediately following World War II, pest control programs recommended by University
of California researchers in recent years have incorporated a variety of strategies,
resulting in more ecologically balanced, “integrated” approaches to managing pests
in many of California's major crops. Despite the reductions in pesticide use that
have resulted from these integrated systems, there is increased public and governmental
concern about the effects of extensive pesticide use on the environment, the health
of farmworkers, and the pests' development of pesticide resistance. Further, the public
now perceives that pesticides constitute an involuntary and unacceptable threat to
food safety. This last factor has led to a number of legislative and public initiatives
that call for alternative approaches to pest control in crop and animal production. |
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| ISSN: | 0008-0845 2160-8091 |