Published in Scientific Papers. Series A. Agronomy, Vol. LXVIII, Issue 1
Written by Maria TOADER, Emil GEORGESCU, Cristina CIONGA, Cristina RADU, Viorel ION, Lenuța Iuliana EPURE, Adrian Gheorghe BĂȘA, Mirela Elena DUȘA, Mihaela Valentina VASILE, Alina Maria IONESCU
Integrated pest management (IPM) has the potential to help farmers minimize the use of crop protection chemicals, relying primarily on preventive measures, reducing costs, and contributing to the transition to sustainable food systems. Although IPM approaches have been developed for a wide variety of crops and contexts, their adoption by farmers remains low across Europe. Previous studies show that farmers prefer a certain agricultural system due to socio-economic dependencies or support and support policies, market or conditions related to equipment and infrastructure, farm machinery and equipment, or insufficient professional training. This suggests that many farmers cannot simply adopt IPM and that changes and clarifications are needed along the entire chain from production, distribution, processing, market, and consumption to agricultural policy levels. This paper presents some of the results obtained to contribute to a greater extent to the co-creation of policies and actions together with the actors involved, regarding consumer health, plant and animal welfare, conservation and protection of the environment and biodiversity, adaptation of plant cultivation technologies to the effects of climate change.
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