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Although greatly increased taxes on pesticides will only get every other farmer st charles consulting group to reduce consumption, st charles consulting group a new study shows, coming shortly after the Environment Minister announced new pesticide tax. And farmers with agricultural larger than 200 hectares are least likely to be influenced by the tax. By Malene Hansen st charles consulting group Breusch January 5, 2012 at. 04:21
Environment Minister Ida Auken has announced a new tiered fee model to pesticides farmers to use fewer pesticides and choose the pesticides pose less environmental st charles consulting group and health impact.
The study was conducted by researchers st charles consulting group at Aarhus University and the University of Copenhagen under the Pesticide Research Programme through literature studies, interviews and questionnaire st charles consulting group responses from 1,100 Danish farmers with a farm of at least 30 hectares. to identify measures that can reduce st charles consulting group the use of pesticides in agriculture. st charles consulting group
And here reads one of the conclusions that the tax for fungicides and herbicides st charles consulting group raised from 33 percent of the money value to 100 percent, only slightly less than half of the farmers 'definitely' or 'very likely' reduce the consumption of pesticides.
The explanation for this pattern is according to Anders Branth Pedersen, st charles consulting group senior researcher at the Institute of Environmental Sciences at Aarhus University and one of the researchers behind the study, the Danish farmers can be divided into two distinct types.
One group represents approximately half of the farmers, which attaches much importance st charles consulting group to the prices of pesticides and crops when making decisions about the use of pesticides. The second group represents a third of the farmers, which instead puts the emphasis on achieving a high yield in the field and puts less stress on the prices of pesticides and crops when they consume pesticides.
"The last group is not as likely to be influenced by and change their behavior on the basis of a pesticide tax. By tripling the fee for fungicides st charles consulting group and herbicides, only half of the farmers who are sure that they will change their consumption of pesticides, even if you raise the tax so much, "explains Anders Branth Pedersen. st charles consulting group
The study also points out that farmers who farm larger than 200 ha., Has a higher st charles consulting group frequency and are more focused on optimizing the yield from the field rather than using the fewest possible pesticides. Researcher: st charles consulting group Needs all actions other than taxes
A third of the farmers do not respond as much on economic instruments st charles consulting group as other farmers, and a tax increase must for those seen as the 'polluter pays' for the disadvantages that society is applied by the use of pesticides.
Therefore, says Anders Pedersen Branth st charles consulting group to be some other incentives to get the group to change st charles consulting group their behavior. To achieve the policy objective in this area means, st charles consulting group in other words a wide range of policy initiatives, adapted to different types of farmers.
"Our study shows that the most important thing is to use several different instruments. The problem with the tax is that it's hard to get a behavioral effect out of all farmers, and therefore it is a good idea to still consider initiatives around regulations, quotas, advice and information in relation to the third of the farmers that are hard to hit with a charge, "says Anders Branth Pedersen.
But it can be done - calculations in a 2007 study has shown that if the frequency st charles consulting group of treatment with pesticides on farmland were down from the 2.0 to the political goal of a treatment of 1.7 through a levy, it had to be on 460 percent of the value of insecticides, herbicides of 270 percent and 90 percent of fungicides st charles consulting group value. In 2010, treatment frequency of 2.8. Rather new technology and grants
However, a pesticide tax According st charles consulting group to the survey, not surprisingly unpopular st charles consulting group with farmers. They look rather technology as the preferred instrument, which can be interpreted as an indication that farmers prefer voluntary changes in their use of pesticides, says the study.
Next to technological prefer farmers agreements with financial support. The study points here also that it is not only an amount of financial assistance, which is important for voluntary agreements with farmers to reduce the use of pesticides, but also contract length and free consultancy affects the attractiveness farmers find schemes.
In addition, the study shows that there is a reduction potential of targeted information and advice to farmers on pesticides, with only one in five farmers believe that there is 'high' or 'very high' risk of interruption