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Integrated pest management portfolios in UK arable farming: results of a farmer survey.

Bailey, Alastair, Bertaglia, M., Fraser, Iain M, Sharma, Abhijit, Douarin, E. (2009) Integrated pest management portfolios in UK arable farming: results of a farmer survey. Pest Management Science, 65 (9). pp. 1030-1039. ISSN 1526-4998. E-ISSN 1526-4998. (doi:10.1002/ps.1790) (KAR id:43599)

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Abstract

Farmers are faced with a wide range of pest management (PM) options that can be adopted in isolation or alongside complementary or substitute strategies. This paper presents the results of a survey of UK cereal producers, focusing on the character and diversity of PM strategies currently used by, or available to, farmers. In addition, the survey asked various questions pertaining to agricultural policy participation, attitude towards environmental issues, sources of PM advice and information and the important characteristics of PM technologies. The results indicate that many farmers do make use of a suite of PM techniques, and that their choice of integrated PM (IPM) portfolio appears to be jointly dictated by farm characteristics and government policy. Results also indicate that portfolio choice does affect the number of subsequent insecticide applications per crop. These results help to identify the type of IPM portfolios considered to be adoptable by farmers and highlight the importance of substitution in IPM portfolios. As such, these results will help to direct R&D effort towards the realisation of more sustainable PM approaches and aid the identification of potential portfolio adopters. These findings highlight the opportunity that a revised agri-environmental policy design could generate in terms of enhancing coherent IPM portfolio adoption.

Item Type: Article
DOI/Identification number: 10.1002/ps.1790
Projects: Re-Bugging the System: Promoting Adoption of Alternative Pest Management Strategies in Field Crop Systems.
Subjects: H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General)
Divisions: Divisions > Division of Human and Social Sciences > School of Economics
Funders: Organisations -1 not found.
Depositing User: Alastair Bailey
Date Deposited: 22 Oct 2014 14:32 UTC
Last Modified: 09 Dec 2022 00:24 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/43599 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)
Bailey, Alastair: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4682-3251
Fraser, Iain M: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4689-6020
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