Economic Incentives to Reduce the Quantity of Chemicals Used in Commercial Agriculture* Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • In recent years, considerable national attention has focused on the use of chemicals by the agriculture sector. Recent descriptive analyses have addressed the problem.of attempting to determine, or to describe, some of the social costs of chemicals used in agriculture which later move to non-agricultural areas. The primary effect of the attention on chemical use in agriculture has been legislative action relative to specific pesticides such as DDT and 2,4,5-T. These actions have made national news along with reports of measured residues of these pesticides in wildlife, fish and other forms of foodstuffs.

published proceedings

  • Southern Journal of Agricultural Economics

author list (cited authors)

  • Lacewell, R. D., & Masch, W. R.

citation count

  • 5

complete list of authors

  • Lacewell, Ronald D||Masch, William R

publication date

  • July 1972