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Do refuge requirements for biotechnology crops promote economic efficiency? Some evidence for Bt cotton
- Abstract::
- We examine producer behavior, resistance evolution, and returns under alternative refuge requirements in an eastern North Carolina region with multiple corn, cotton, and soybean fields infested by a mobile pest. Returns are highest, pyrethroid sprays occur least frequently, and pyrethroid resistance evolution is delayed most effectively with no refuge requirement. Complying with the current 20% refuge requirement costs the producer $8.67 per cotton acre, or $34.21 per non-transgenic insecticidal (Bt) cotton acre. Returns are highest under each refuge requirement when one-toxin Bt cotton is not phased out; however, removal of the technology at the earliest phase-out date minimizes regional pyrethroid sprays.
- Author(s):
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Livingston, M.J. , Storer, N.P. , Van Duyn, J.W. , Kennedy, G.G.
- Subject(s):
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refuge habitats , agricultural economics , cotton , Helicoverpa zea , Bacillus thuringiensis , transgenic plants , cost effectiveness , laws and regulations , corn , soybeans , pyrethroid insecticides , spraying , insecticide resistance , econometric models , North Carolina
- Description:
- Includes references
- Source:
- Journal of agricultural and applied economics 2007 Apr., v. 39, no. 1
- Language:
- English
- Year:
- 2007
- Collection:
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Journal Articles, USDA Authors, Peer-Reviewed
- File:
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- Rights:
- Works produced by employees of the U.S. Government as part of their official duties are not copyrighted within the U.S. The content of this document is not copyrighted.
