On-farm Risk Assessment of Agricultural Pesticides
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UK Government policy is seeking to optimise agricultural pesticide use and encourage the adoption of Integrated Pest Management (IPM) techniques. An integral part of IPM is selecting pesticides that are likely to pose the least environmental risk. Environmental risk assessment is a highly technical process and is heavily data dependant making a scientifically sound approach on-farm unrealistic without a computer-based decision support tool. Such a tool has now been developed that estimates risks to a wide range of taxonomic groups and environmental compartments using methods consistent with current regulatory assessments but also allows adjustments to reflect formulation, the local conditions and the environmental costs and benefits of varying management practices.
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