Agricultural pest management program efficiency challenged by information diffusion barriers among farmers

Thursday, October 13, 2011 - 21:30 in Earth & Climate

While international pest management programs have long relied on farmer cooperation to spread pest control information at larger scales, a study by French researchers reveals that slow information diffusion within farmer communities gives rise to significant lags in implementation of pest management procedures.

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