Publications
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2013
Academic chapter – Pesticide use in agriculture
Marianne Stenrød, Gro Hege Ludvigsen, Olav Lode, ...
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Effective pest management is a prerequisite to maintain yields of sufficient quality and quantitywithin agriculture. In conventional agriculture this involves the use of pesticides, and current legislation focus on the need for increased awareness of the environmental consequences and a sustainable use. The Norwegian Agricultural Environmental Monitoring Program (JOVA) aims at documenting environmental consequences of both the current agricultural practices and changes with time,due to changes imposed by policy, laws and regulations, climatic factors a.o., and include collection of pesticide use data within selected agricultural catchments. The catchment scale data on plant protection practices from the JOVA-program indicate reduced use of pesticides in the catchments dominated by potatoes and vegetables, and meadows and pasture, while there are no indications of reduced use of pesticides in cereal production. There have been marked shifts in the pesticide use within the catchments during the monitoring period due to changes in management practices and the continuous change in the range of pesticides available for control of a certain pest. The monitoring of pesticide residues in surface and ground waters in the JOVA-catchments depend on analyses that do not include all important pesticides in use. Hence, the environmental challenges connected to the current pesticide use in Norwegian agriculture are not fully explored. This is particularly of concern regarding the widespread use of glyphosate and sulfonylurea herbicides for weed control, as well as the rapidly increasing use of prothioconazole to control Fusarium spp. in cereal. The long-term, farm scale pesticide use data from the JOVA-program is a unique source ofinformation to establish the necessary knowledge to design measures and instruments to reduce pesticide pollution from agriculture, and should be utilized in the future use of pesticide risk indicator models that is recommended through the Framework Directive for Sustainable Use of Pesticides.
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VIDEO: Issues such as contamination from surrounding agriculture, increased tourism and climate change all pose a threat to Europe’s many lagoons - vulnerable ecosystems in densely populated areas. Scientists are now going new ways to secure better lagoon management in future.
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Mohammad Maniruzzaman Mohammad Shahid Ullah Talukder Khan M. Hassanuzzaman Jatish C. Biswas Attila NemesAbstract
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