School of Management and Economics, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China.
School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China.
Pest Manag Sci. 2019 Aug;75(8):2133-2141. doi: 10.1002/ps.5332. Epub 2019 Feb 21.
In China, pesticide overuse and underuse have been studied. However, little empirical evidence has been provided for pesticide misuse.
Using data from a farm household survey in 2016, we quantitatively analyzed Chinese farmers' pesticide misuse in the production of rice, apple, tea, and greenhouse vegetables. The results show that pesticide misuse is common in China. However, the misuse is found to be lower in rice production than in the production of apple, tea, and greenhouse vegetables. Compared with that of the major pests, pesticide misuse is much more common for the control of the secondary pests. In a considerable number of observations, some farmers even failed to indicate the pests they controlled or the pesticides they used.
Pesticide misuse may result in both the overuse and underuse of pesticides. In China, pesticide misuse could be attributed to the lack of pest management knowledge among farmers, limited accessibility to a high-quality governmental agricultural extension service, misleading information, and absence of pest prediction and forecast. Hence, a socialized agricultural extension system and new agricultural extension models adapted to different farmers are expected to be developed and implemented in China. © 2019 Society of Chemical Industry.
在中国，人们已经研究了农药的过度使用和使用不足的问题。然而，对于农药误用，几乎没有提供经验证据。
利用 2016 年农户调查数据，我们定量分析了中国农民在水稻、苹果、茶叶和温室蔬菜生产中农药误用的情况。结果表明，农药误用在中国很常见。然而，与苹果、茶叶和温室蔬菜生产相比，水稻生产中的农药误用较低。与主要病虫害相比，次要病虫害的防治中农药误用更为常见。在相当多的情况下，一些农民甚至没有表明他们防治的病虫害或使用的农药。
农药误用可能导致农药的过度使用和使用不足。在中国，农民缺乏病虫害管理知识、难以获得高质量的政府农业推广服务、误导性信息以及缺乏病虫害预测和预报，这些都可能导致农药误用。因此，预计中国将开发和实施社会化农业推广体系以及适应不同农民的新型农业推广模式。 © 2019 英国化学工程师学会
