the pest control decisions of a grower who optimally utilizes a pesticide and a predaceous insect to control the crop pest … decisions involve entirely mitigating the negative effects of the pesticide as well as releasing additional predators. …

’ health. Results show average cost of pesticide-related health risks at about 165 KSh and 324 KSh per cropping season for … we demonstrate that pesticide ascribed incidence of acute illness symptoms and its associated cost of illness …

content focuses on pesticide purchase, label reading, personal protection, container disposal, sprayer maintenance and sprayer …

presence of and reliance on Aphytis melinus, an important beneficial insect. Results show that landscape-level pesticide use … decreases the presence of A. melinus and increases reliance on insecticides. Pesticide use on non-citrus crops has a significant …

The short-term effect of pesticide bans generally is less efficient production, with higher consumer prices. The higher … commodity prices provide windfall profits to producers of affected crops who did not need the banned pesticide, while those … producers who were previous users of the banned pesticide may gain or lose, depending on price elasticities of demand and supply …

innovation or imitation by developing a conceptual model and then empirically testing it using pesticide innovation data from a …

The article deals with an analysis of the world agricultural and foodstuff production and consumption. It analyses …