National Council of Farmer Cooperatives 1999 PESP Strategy Strategic Approach Crop protection tools provide major health and economic benefits both to consumers and producers, processors and distributors of food, natural fiber and other agricultural products. As a trade association, NCFC is not involved in the use of crop protectants and therefore cannot reduce risks directly.
Education plays a major role in facilitating efforts by users of crop protectants to reduce risk.
It is their subsequent actions that will further reduce risk. NCFC will measure progress in achieving its Supporter goals through the number of articles published in NCFC and member publications, and instances in which members are provided information through use of the CAFE exhibit and dissemination of literature. This activity promotes and encourages pesticide risk reduction by making PESP information more readily accessible to NCFC members. NCFC Supporter progress will be measured by making the web link operational and by the number of instances in which reduced risk successes and other information are made available via the NCFC web site. NCFC Supporter role will be to encourage dialog and analysis among interested members, and to facilitate efforts to identify and implement any business or outreach risk reduction initiatives that may be undertaken.