A DEVELOPING USER-ORIENTED A DEVELOPING USER-ORIENTED DATABASE FOR PESTICIDES DATABASE FOR PESTICIDES Fengyou Jia 1,2 , Sonny Ramaswamy Gamage Dissanayake 3 [email protected]1 Department of Entomology, Kansas State University 2 Department of Computing and Information Sciences, KSU 3 Department of Communications – IET, Kansas State University Manhattan, KS 66506, USA
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A DEVELOPING USER-ORIENTED DATABASE FOR PESTICIDES Fengyou Jia 1,2, Sonny Ramaswamy Gamage Dissanayake 3 [email protected] 1 Department of Entomology, Kansas.
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A DEVELOPING USER-ORIENTED A DEVELOPING USER-ORIENTED DATABASE FOR PESTICIDESDATABASE FOR PESTICIDES
To reduce and mitigate the negative influence of pesticides
• Cultural practices• Biological controls• Genetic modified crops• ……• One easy way is to select relative safe pesticides in pest
control
Lack of sophisticate tools
To support the pesticides selection in pest management programs
A query:Suppose a user intends to control ants around his house. Considering safety, the user prefers the pesticide products that have low toxicity to humans and animals because the applied sites are so close to the house-member and domesticated animals. The user may be an environmental conservator and expects the desired pesticide products having low toxicity to birds and other small invertebrates. Additionally, the user may expect the pesticides have a short persistent period in the soil.
Research Objective
To design a user-oriented pesticide safety consultant system (tool) in guidance of pesticide selection and application in pest management program.
Ultimately, we expect this consultant system would assist to reduce or minimize the use of certain pesticides that commit high hazardous potentials to humans, domestic animals, ecosystems, and the environment.
Potential Users
Farmers
Growers
Extension Professions
Government Agencies (e. g., EPA)
Universities
Private Consultants
Rationality(Fundamental basis to support our objective)
Pesticides vary not only with target pests but with hazardous potentials to humans, ecosystems, and the environment as well.
Relative toxicity of pesticide to humans
Pesticide Trade Name Acute Oral (Common name) LD50 Rats