Journal or Publishing Institution: American Agricultural Economics Association
Study: https://ideas.repec.org/p/ags/aaea06/21230.html
Author(s): Just, D.R., Wang, S. and Pinstrup-Andersen, P.
Article Type: Study
Record ID: 1190
Abstract: As with other technologies, adoption of Bt seed requires technology specific knowledge. Growing secondary pest populations have slowly eroded the benefits of Bt technology in China. We illustrate the effects of introducing Bt technology among farmers with an imperfect knowledge of secondary pest problems using a simple dynamic model. The stochastic dominance tests based on primary household data from 1999-2001 and 2004 in China provide strong evidence that secondary pests, if unanticipated, could completely erode all benefits from Bt cotton cultivation. Our empirical tests also suggest that planting refuge concurrent with Bt adoption provides for the sustainable development of Bt technology.
Keywords: Bt, Secondary Pest Infestations, China, Genetically modified cotton
Citation: Just, D.R., Wang, S. and Pinstrup-Andersen, P., 2006. Tarnishing Silver Bullets: Bt Technology Adoption, Bounded Rationality and the Outbreak of Secondary Pest Infestations in China. In American Agricultural Economics Association Annual Meeting, July 23-26, Long Beach, CA(No. 21230). (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association).
