Empirical Scenarios of Emission Control and Economic Sustainability for Energy Input and Intervention of Agricultural Pesticides

Ahmad Qosim, Anies Anies and Henna Rya Sunoko
Additional contact information
Ahmad Qosim: Doctoral Program of Environmental Science, School of Postgraduate Studies, Universitas Diponegoro, Semarang, Indonesia,
Anies Anies: Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Diponegoro, Semarang, Indonesia,
Henna Rya Sunoko: Department of Environmental Science, School of Postgraduate Studies, Universitas Diponegoro, Semarang, Indonesia

International Journal of Energy Economics and Policy, 2019, vol. 9, issue 4, 91-96

Abstract: The application of pesticides have been out of control, therefore, it is damaging environment due to emissions of vary substances and gases, e.g. CO2, SO2, PO4, and Summer Smog. This negative impact alone is also going to affect the paddy production. A comprehensive measure must be taken in order to create a sustainable development in agricultural sectors. Control on pesticides is one of the best practices to be proposed. This study used a quantitative methodology with a Life Cycle Assessment approach to test empirically the use of pesticides and to propose various scenarios in the effort of modification of environmentally friendly and low emission agriculture, which includes aspects of Greenhouse, Acidification, Eutrophication, SPM Smog. By using Life Cycle Assessment with quantitative measurement using SimaPro 7, the findings show that ratio of emission rate of the existing condition to the proposed model proved a 34.5% decrease in CO2 equivalent (136.4 kg) and 41.6% decrease in SO2. As the environmental risks decreases, it is expected that the sustainable agricultural development of paddy commodity can be materialised. Some recommendations are given by the researc findings, i.e. distribution system according to the proposed model, recording, monitoring, and legal enforcement towards the sustainable development.

Keywords: Paddy; Pesticide Control; Agricultural Sustainability; Emission (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: K32 O13 P18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.econjournals.com/index.php/ijeep/article/download/7687/4407 (application/pdf)
https://www.econjournals.com/index.php/ijeep/article/view/7687/4407 (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eco:journ2:2019-04-11

Access Statistics for this article

International Journal of Energy Economics and Policy is currently edited by Ilhan Ozturk

More articles in International Journal of Energy Economics and Policy from Econjournals
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Ilhan Ozturk ().