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Effects of halving pesticide use on wheat production
Pesticides pose serious threats to both human health and the environment. In Europe, farmers are encouraged to reduce their use, and in France a recent environmental policy fixed a target of halving the pesticide use by 2018. Organic and integrated cropping systems have been proposed as possible sol...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3960944/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24651597 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep04405 |
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author | Hossard, L. Philibert, A. Bertrand, M. Colnenne-David, C. Debaeke, P. Munier-Jolain, N. Jeuffroy, M. H. Richard, G. Makowski, D. |
author_facet | Hossard, L. Philibert, A. Bertrand, M. Colnenne-David, C. Debaeke, P. Munier-Jolain, N. Jeuffroy, M. H. Richard, G. Makowski, D. |
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description | Pesticides pose serious threats to both human health and the environment. In Europe, farmers are encouraged to reduce their use, and in France a recent environmental policy fixed a target of halving the pesticide use by 2018. Organic and integrated cropping systems have been proposed as possible solutions for reducing pesticide use, but the effect of reducing pesticide use on crop yield remains unclear. Here we use a set of cropping system experiments to quantify the yield losses resulting from a reduction of pesticide use for winter wheat in France. Our estimated yield losses resulting from a 50% reduction in pesticide use ranged from 5 to 13% of the yield obtained with the current pesticide use. At the scale of the whole country, these losses would decrease the French wheat production by about 2 to 3 millions of tons, which represent about 15% of the French wheat export. |
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spelling | pubmed-39609442014-03-21 Effects of halving pesticide use on wheat production Hossard, L. Philibert, A. Bertrand, M. Colnenne-David, C. Debaeke, P. Munier-Jolain, N. Jeuffroy, M. H. Richard, G. Makowski, D. Sci Rep Article Pesticides pose serious threats to both human health and the environment. In Europe, farmers are encouraged to reduce their use, and in France a recent environmental policy fixed a target of halving the pesticide use by 2018. Organic and integrated cropping systems have been proposed as possible solutions for reducing pesticide use, but the effect of reducing pesticide use on crop yield remains unclear. Here we use a set of cropping system experiments to quantify the yield losses resulting from a reduction of pesticide use for winter wheat in France. Our estimated yield losses resulting from a 50% reduction in pesticide use ranged from 5 to 13% of the yield obtained with the current pesticide use. At the scale of the whole country, these losses would decrease the French wheat production by about 2 to 3 millions of tons, which represent about 15% of the French wheat export. Nature Publishing Group 2014-03-20 /pmc/articles/PMC3960944/ /pubmed/24651597 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep04405 Text en Copyright © 2014, Macmillan Publishers Limited. All rights reserved http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ |
spellingShingle | Article Hossard, L. Philibert, A. Bertrand, M. Colnenne-David, C. Debaeke, P. Munier-Jolain, N. Jeuffroy, M. H. Richard, G. Makowski, D. Effects of halving pesticide use on wheat production |
title | Effects of halving pesticide use on wheat production |
title_full | Effects of halving pesticide use on wheat production |
title_fullStr | Effects of halving pesticide use on wheat production |
title_full_unstemmed | Effects of halving pesticide use on wheat production |
title_short | Effects of halving pesticide use on wheat production |
title_sort | effects of halving pesticide use on wheat production |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3960944/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24651597 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep04405 |
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