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Provedor de dados: | 31
País: | United States
Título: | Chemical Use Reductions in Urban Fringe Agriculture
Autores: | Adelaja,   Adesoji O.; Sullivan,   Kevin P.; Hailu,   Yohannes G.; Govindasamy,   Ramu.
Data: | 2010-10-27
Ano: | 2010
Palavras-chave: | Chemical use; Sustainable agriculture; Herbicides; Fungicides; Fertilizer; Pesticides; Urban fringe; Agricultural and Food Policy; Agricultural Finance; Environmental Economics and Policy; Farm Management; Production Economics.
Resumo: | Using an augmented profit function framework designed to account for externalities related to chemical use in agriculture, this paper explains the chemical use choices of farmers in an urban fringe farming environment. It further estimates empirical logit models of reduced insecticide, fungicide, herbicide, and fertilizer usage. Results suggest that farmers who perceive their regulatory environment to be strict, who have experienced right-to-farm conflicts, and who have farms larger in size are more likely to reduce their chemical use over time, vis-à-vis other farmers. The results also suggest the importance of other farm structural and business climate factors in determining chemical use reduction choices.
Tipo: | Journal Article
Idioma: | Inglês
Identificador: | http://purl.umn.edu/95646
Relação: | Agricultural and Resource Economics Review&gt;Volume 39, Number 3, October 2010
Formato: | 14