Journal article
Quantity and monetary value of agrochemical pollution from intensive farming in Indonesia
J Mariyono, A Kuntariningsih, E Suswati, T Kompas
Management of Environmental Quality an International Journal | EMERALD GROUP PUBLISHING LTD | Published : 2018
Abstract
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to measure the environmental performance of intensive farming and estimate agrochemical waste in physical and monetary terms. The intensive farming provides adverse impacts including health and environmental quality associated with the use of agrochemicals. Design/methodology/approach: This study uses a theory of environmental efficiency that measures how efficient the farm uses agrochemical inputs. The efficiency was estimated using a set of farm-level data of intensive farming that use agrochemicals. Data were compiled from a survey of randomly selected 240 farmers who operated intensive farming in three regions of Java in 2014. Findings: The results s..
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Funding Acknowledgements
The authors thank the farmers who kindly provided their time to give information on crop production practices along with the research assistants and enumerators. This is to acknowledge that the Indonesia Project of Crawford School - The Australian National University in collaboration with SMERU research institute provided a research grant to support to this research project in Indonesia. The authors also thank Dr Robert Sparrow, a former Research Fellow at the Crawford School, and the anonymous reviewers for the constructive comments and feedbacks. The authors are responsible for interpretation and any shortcomings and errors.