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My discussion will be limited to pest management systems as applied to species that attack crops. It will be based on the following premises: (1) An efficient, productive, and profitable agriculture is essential to the well-being of our nation; (2) Adequate quantities of food, feed, and fiber of acceptable quality cannot be produced without effective management of pest species (weeds, insects, nematodes, fungi, bacteria, and viruses and related agents) that attack crops; (3) Adequate regulation of agricultural pest populations is impossible at current levels of technology without heavy reliance upon use of conventional, chemical pesticides; (4) Pest management systems exclusively based on unilateral, profligate use of pesticides in prophylactic schedules of applications provide an untenable approach to regulating agricultural pest populations; and (5) Intelligent use of these indispensable chemicals, the foundation upon which integrated pest management systems are constructed, is effective, economical, ecologically sound, and an imperative necessity.
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Newsom, L.D. (1979). Role of Pesticides in Pest Management Systems. In: Sheets, T.J., Pimentel, D. (eds) Pesticides. Contemporary Issues in Science and Society. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-6242-8_8
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