acres in 1980. This assumes that each consultant can care for 20,000 

 acres. By 1986, with increased efficiency, 3,633 advisors will be needed 

 to handle about 109 million acres. Growers will pay for the services 

 of consultants. 



Based on data on pesticide sales in the past few years, without an 

 1PM program, the value of pesticide sales could reach $6.3 billion by 

 1986 (II percent annual increase) (table 4). It was $1.8 billion in 1974. 

 By 1986, the pounds of pesticide products sold will reach 2.6 billion 

 pounds (6 percent annual increase). There were 1.3 billion pounds of 

 pesticides sold in 1974. An effective IPM program could reduce these 

 sales by 30 percent— a savings of $1.8 billion and a reduction of 0.8 

 billion pounds of pesticides. Farmers would spend $566 million on 

 fPM instead of pesticides. Public cost of IPM would be $28.4 million. 

 Therefore, the net savings over cost would be $1.2 billion annually 

 above public cost of the program and grower fees for IPM services. 



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