caa a22 4500 386315930 CHVBK 20180307111605.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130s1988 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0889189300002277 doi S0889189300002277 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0889189300002277 Carlson Gerald A. Professor, Department of Economics and Business, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695-8110. Economics of biological control of pests [Elektronische Daten] [Gerald A. Carlson] Biological pest control techniques usually have identifiable costs and constraints that they must overcome before they will be adopted by farmers. Many biological control agents are developed in the public sector and need economic assessments at an early stage. The methods often have hidden costs related to farm labor adjustments or initial costs of development. Living biological controls frequently escape, and they may be disrupted by pesticides, regulations, or farm commodity programs. Pest control registration procedures and small markets also present obstacles. Area-wide implementation programs and changes in incentives for researchers may speed development and adoption of biological controls. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1988 American Journal of Alternative Agriculture Cambridge University Press 3/2-3(1988), 110-116 0889-1893 3:2-3<110 1988 3 AJA https://doi.org/10.1017/S0889189300002277 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0889189300002277 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Carlson Gerald A. Professor, Department of Economics and Business, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695-8110 NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- American Journal of Alternative Agriculture Cambridge University Press 3/2-3(1988), 110-116 0889-1893 3:2-3<110 1988 3 AJA CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge