"Concerns about the sustainability of conventional agriculture have prompted widespread introduction of integrated pest … is not significantly different from the productivity of conventional farming. Since IPM reduces pesticide costs with no … of pesticide contamination in developing countries"--World Bank web site …

"As pesticide traders are important sources of information about the health impacts of pesticides, a crucial … understanding of their perception is necessary to guide further pesticide information dissemination efforts through this channel. To … this end, a 2003 survey of 110 Bangladeshi pesticide traders was conducted with questions on the pesticides in stock …

pesticide use or handling, and over 87 percent openly admitting to using little or no protective measures while applying … pesticides, overuse is potentially a threatening problem to farmer health as well as the environment. To model pesticide overuse …, the authors used a 3-equation, trivariate probit framework, with health effects and misperception of pesticide risk as …

"In this paper, the authors have assessed the incidence and determinants of pesticide poisoning among rice farmers in … negative externalities, and suggest that future research on pesticide-related damage should include information on local water …