2010-11-11

Why the farmers do not accept new pesticide

Recently, network of excellence for pesticide use pesticides carried out some investigations. The study found that many farmers still prefer the traditional use of highly toxic pesticides, while the market for some new high efficiency and low toxicity pesticides and biological pesticides are not interested, this is why?

  
First, higher prices. Is not due to production of new pesticides, all types of relatively conventional pesticides, coupled with the pre-development costs, so production costs are high, prices are also relatively expensive. Peasant farming is now more carefully, which cheap which to use.

Followed by the propaganda behind. Allow farmers to accept a relatively slow process of new things, and is the kind of crop of crops close crop of, if there is an accident, causing serious damage. Therefore, the new pesticide propaganda, the ads must keep up with, and forms should be varied, the language should be easy to understand.

Model is again small. As the temperature difference between East and West, climate changing, the South applicable, the North does not necessarily apply; Hirakawa applicable, mountain may not apply. The farmers regardless of what new technologies are very particular about the application, it should first establish agricultural sector to guide the use of more experimental field. Actual promotion, free trial allows large number of new farming and pesticides, to gain experience, so that farmers saw or hear, so to accept the new rate of natural pesticides is much faster.

Finally, ideas die hard. Over the years, the farmers seem to mind the formation of such a traditional concept that insecticidal toxic effects of pesticides certainly better than the less toxic pesticides. Especially in the use of pesticides to prevent pests and diseases in the practice, they basically mastered the use of conventional pesticides.Saying goes: "habits die hard", so in recent years although there have been efficiency and low toxicity pesticides listed, you can still have a lot of farmers on conventional chemical pesticides in soft spot.

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