Costs and effectiveness of on‐farm measures to reduce aquatic risks from pesticides in the Netherlands

Eerdt, M.M. van; Spruijt, J.; Wal, Erna van der; Zeijts, H. van; Tiktak, A.

doi:10.1002/ps.3729

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“…In particular, if there is a surface water body close to the field, the correct use (spray pressure, driving speed) of proper technical equipment (low drift spraying equipment) will help to achieve additional reduction potential. Using 90% drift reducing techniques might lower the aquatic risk by 80% compared with a reference spraying scheme with 50% drift‐reducing techniques 57 . Therefore, spray drift does not have to cause a serious aquatic risk.…”

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Pesticide use in sugar beet cultivation in Germany and assessment of the associated environmental risks using the risk indicator SYNOPS‐GIS

Nause¹,

Strassemeyer

Mahlein³

et al. 2021

Pest Management Science

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BACKGROUND The assessment of the environmental risks for pesticides is a current topic of the European Union (EU) strategy ‘Farm to Fork’. Therefore, an analysis of the status quo of pesticide use from 2010 to 2015 and the associated environmental risks was performed for sugar beet cultivation in Germany. Based on this assessment, crop protection strategies should be developed that contribute to risk reduction. RESULTS Pesticide use data from 2314 randomly chosen sugar beet growing farms were available from annual farm surveys from 2010 until 2015. Possible environmental risks from pesticide applications were calculated with the model SYNOPS‐GIS. Each pesticide application pattern was combined with several model fields. The concentrations of active ingredients in the non‐target compartments, namely soil, neighboring surface waters and field margins, were used to determined risk indices (exposure toxicity ratios, ETRs) for different terrestrial and aquatic reference species. ETRs were mainly lower than a risk threshold used throughout this study (ETR = 1). The risks caused by herbicide use were studied in more detail since herbicides are applied on nearly all fields. The aquatic risks posed by herbicides were independent of specific active ingredients or application patterns. Instead, certain combinations of active ingredients, application dates and field‐specific environmental conditions provoked higher risks. The aquatic risks were strongly influenced by the distance of the fields to surface waters. CONCLUSIONS Further risk mitigation seems possible by combining field‐specific measures and technical options. © 2021 Society of Chemical Industry.

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Pesticide use in sugar beet cultivation in Germany and assessment of the associated environmental risks using the risk indicator SYNOPS‐GIS

Nause¹,

Strassemeyer

Mahlein³

et al. 2021

Pest Management Science

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“…Crop protection is the most popular way where pesticides are utilized in agriculture with reported global increase in their production and usage [30,31]. Various researchers reported regular monitoring and effects of pesticides in the European waters with agricultural runoff and/or leaching as the simplest way pesticides could enter into surface waters [32][33][34], thereby making the ecosystem and/or living organisms vulnerable to various health hazards. Several factors were revealed to play a key role in making these pesticides dangerous for drinking water.…”

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Risk assessment and the adsorptive removal of some pesticides from synthetic wastewater: a review

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Abdullahi

Haruna

et al. 2021

Beni-Suef Univ J Basic Appl Sci

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Background The need for environmental protection and remediation processes has been an increasing global concern. Pesticides are used as biological agents, disinfectants, antimicrobials, and also in a mixture of some chemical substances. Their modes of application are through selective dispensing and attenuation processes which act upon any pest that compete with the production, processing, and storage of foods and also in agricultural commodes. The pests might comprise weeds, insects, birds, fish, and microbes. Main body Pesticides are commonly found in water surface, landfill leachate, ground water, and wastewater as pollutant. An overview of recently studied adsorption processes for the pesticide elimination from polluted water has been reported in this study utilizing activated carbon, clay materials, biomass materials, metal organic frame work, graphene, and carbon-based materials as well as agricultural wastes as adsorbents. The risk assessment and cost analysis of adsorbents were also provided. Conclusion Evidences from literature recommend modified adsorbent and composite materials to have a prospective use in pesticide removal from wastewater. The adsorption data obtained fitted into different isotherm and kinetic models and also the thermodynamic aspect have been discussed. Graphical abstract

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“…matične spojine. Posamezni pesticidni pripravek vsebujejo eno ali več aktivnih snovi, ki lahko z izpiranjem s padavinskimi vodami pridejo v podzemno vodo (Gonzalez-Rodríguez et al, 2011;Heuvelink et al, 2010;van Eerdt et al, 2014).…”

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Prevalence of pesticides in Krško-Brežice polje aquifer

Mali¹,

Koroša²,

Urbanc³

2021

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Groundwater pollution with pesticides is a problem that occurs all over the world as well as in Slovenia. Considering the past high loads of groundwater with pesticides, the purpose of the presented research was to determine the presence of pesticides in the groundwater of Krško-Brežiško polje in the period 2018-2019 and to check the applicability of the passive sampling method. A total of 21 groundwater samples were taken at 11 locations and 2 samples each in the Sava and Krka rivers. We identified 15 pesticides and their degradation products. Atrazine and its degradation product desethylatrazine were most frequently determined in groundwater samples. They are followed by desethylterbutylazine, terbutylazine, metolachlor and simazine. Atrazine, desethylatrazine, chlortoluron, metolachlor and terbuthylazine were detected in surface water. A total of 24 samples were taken in groundwater and surface water using the qualitative passive sampling method. We singled out 8 pesticides that appear in two campaigns. The frequency and occurrence of individual pesticides by both methods are comparable. Passive sampling has proven to be an appropriate method of identifying the presence of pesticides. The highest loads in the Krško-Brežiško field arise from the agricultural land areas. Groundwater is more contaminated with pesticides in the central part of the field in the direction of groundwater flow from west to east. In the groundwater of the Krško-Brežice field, atrazine and desethylatrazine are still the most frequently detected pesticides with higher concentrations, despite a 20 years long ban on the use of atrazine-based plant protection products.

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Costs and effectiveness of on‐farm measures to reduce aquatic risks from pesticides in the Netherlands

Cited by 20 publications

References 23 publications

Pesticide use in sugar beet cultivation in Germany and assessment of the associated environmental risks using the risk indicator SYNOPS‐GIS

Pesticide use in sugar beet cultivation in Germany and assessment of the associated environmental risks using the risk indicator SYNOPS‐GIS

Risk assessment and the adsorptive removal of some pesticides from synthetic wastewater: a review

Prevalence of pesticides in Krško-Brežice polje aquifer

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