Economics of agro-chemicals : an international overview of use patterns, technical and institutional determinants, policies and perspectives : selected papers of the Symposium of the International Association of Agricultural Economists held at Wageningen, The Netherlands, 24-8 April 1996

Author(s)

• Symposium of the International Association of Agricultural Economists
• Wossink, G. A. A.
• Van Kooten, G. C. (Gerrit C.)
• Peters, G. H.

Bibliographic Information

Economics of agro-chemicals : an international overview of use patterns, technical and institutional determinants, policies and perspectives : selected papers of the Symposium of the International Association of Agricultural Economists held at Wageningen, The Netherlands, 24-8 April 1996

edited by G.A.A. Wossink, G.C. van Kooten, and G.H. Peters

Ashgate, c1998

• : hard

Note

Includes bibliographical references and indexes

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This book provides a global overview of agrochemical use against the backdrop of future agricultural production requirements and environmental concerns. From acknowledged experts in their field this book examines the relationship between agro-chemical use and sustainability, producer knowledge and policy analysis for less developed and industrialized economies.

Table of Contents

• Contents: Introduction to Agro-chemicals Use: Inventories and Overviews for Different Areas of the World: Who will feed China? Agro-chemicals and China's grain strategy to 2010
• Growth and economics of pesticide use in India: overview of the environment, patterns and market potential
• Do fertilizers play a major role in sustainable agricultural development in West Africa?
• Analysis of intensive farming systems in the European Union. Agro-Chemicals Use and Sustainable Agriculture: Agro-chemicals use and sustainable agriculture: some observations from a semi-arid area of India
• Use and abuse of chemical fertilizers in a resource-scarce economy: Karnataka Province, India
• An economic evaluation of alternative nutrient management practices in sustaining resource base productivity
• Economic evaluation of low and high external input agriculture: a production function analysis for Indonesia
• Evaluating sustainability of intensive farming systems in China. Efficiency and Producers' Knowledge and Perceptions: Regional variation in efficiency of fertilizer use: food crop production in Togo
• Environmental and economic effects of spatial variability in cropping: nitrogen fertilization and site-specific management
• Farmers' perceptions of sustainable production techniques: weed control in sugarbeet. Determinants of Fertilizer and Pesticide Use: the effect of price changes on the use of fertilizer and pesticides in Dutch wheat production
• The demand for fertilizer on upland rice in the south-west of Burkina Faso: determinants and cost and returns analysis
• Farm management of fungicide use in tulips in The Netherlands. Policy Instruments and Policy Analysis: LDCS: Public policy and fertilizer demand in Ghana
• Consequences for agricultural policies of analysing economic and political factors of pesticide use in developing countries
• Financial and economic evaluation of phosphate rock use to enhance soil fertility in West Africa: is there a role for government?. Policy Instrum

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Details

• NCID: BA38210145
• ISBN:
  • 1840140844
• LCCN: 97051287
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Aldershot
• Pages/Volumes: xx, 386 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : S585
  • DC21 : 338.1/62
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Agricultural chemicals -- Congresses
  • LCSH : Agricultural chemicals -- Economic aspects -- Congresses
  • LCSH : Agricultural chemicals industry -- Government policy -- Congresses