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Agriculture and Water Quality: Old Problem, New Urgency

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 September 2016

Roy Carriker  and
Amy Purvis
Roy Carriker
Affiliation:
Food and Resource Economics Department, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
Amy Purvis
Affiliation:
Food and Resource Economics Department, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
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…[The] fundamental issue here is the recognition and acknowledgement that, no matter what, agriculture disturbs the natural environment. The real issue is how much disturbance society will accept; not whether it will accept any at all.

The bottom line is that farmers need to understand that there will indeed be a cost to pollution abatement and that it may well be their responsibility to accept those costs in moving quickly to meet society's objectives for protection of environmental quality.

Susan Offutt

Office of the Management and Budget

Executive Office of the President

Type
Invited Papers and Discussions
Information
Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics , Volume 22 , Issue 1 , July 1990 , pp. 27 - 32
Copyright
Copyright © Southern Agricultural Economics Association 1990

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