Effect of uncertainty on farmers decision making: Case of animal manure use

dc.contributor.authorBert , Vermeire
dc.contributor.authorJacques , Viaene
dc.contributor.authorXavier, Gellynck
dc.date.accessioned2021-06-28T11:16:44Z
dc.date.available2021-06-28T11:16:44Z
dc.date.issued2009-12-30
dc.description.abstractDue to the high levels of manure application and the poor use efficiency of manure, the European agriculture is held responsible for a considerable negative impact on surface water quality (Langeveld et al., 2007). This problem has emerged particularly in Western-European countries such as the UK, Belgium, The Netherlands and Denmark, facing a large expansion and intensification process in the livestock production since the 1960s (Van der Straeten et al., 2008). Policy measures related to the application of manure on the land encompass two major measures: emission rights, understood as the amount of nutrients which can be applied on the land, differentiated by crop and the N spreading calendars, whereby the manure can only be applied when the crop needs nutrients. The fundamental aim of this pillar is to maximising application rate while avoiding overfertilisation. Maximizing the application rate is related to the economic sustainability of the agricultural sector, by altering the manure surplus, while avoiding overfertilisation is imperative in enhancing ecological sustainability, by preventing nitrate leaching to surface and soil waters. For nitrate policy to meet its target, the farmers should not exceed their emission rights, however make optimal use of their emission right for manure. Consequently, the successful implementation of sink-related measures will strongly depend of the absorptive capacity of farmers towards new ways of nutrient management in general and of animal manures in particular.en
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dc.identifier.citationApplied Studies in Agribusiness and Commerce, Vol. 3 No. 5-6 (2009) , 7-13
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.19041/APSTRACT/2009/5-6/1
dc.identifier.eissn1789-7874
dc.identifier.issn1789-221X
dc.identifier.issue5-6
dc.identifier.jatitleAPSTRACT
dc.identifier.jtitleApplied Studies in Agribusiness and Commerce
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2437/317914en
dc.identifier.volume3
dc.languageen
dc.relationhttps://ojs.lib.unideb.hu/apstract/article/view/7539
dc.rights.accessOpen Access
dc.rights.ownerUniversity of Debrecen, Faculty of Economics and Business, Hungary
dc.subjectfarmers decisionen
dc.subjectanimal manureen
dc.subjectEffect of uncertaintyen
dc.titleEffect of uncertainty on farmers decision making: Case of animal manure useen
dc.typefolyóiratcikkhu
dc.typearticleen
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