Valuing financial, health, and environmental benefits of Bt cotton in Pakistan

Valuing financial, health and environmental benefits of Bt cotton in Pakistan

Data from a farm survey and choice experiment are used to value the benefits of Bt cotton in Pakistan. Unlike previous research on the economic impacts of Bt, which mostly concentrated on financial benefits in terms of gross margins, we also quantify and monetize positive externalities associated with technology adoption. Due to lower chemical pesticide use on Bt cotton plots, there are signifi...

Five years of Bt cotton in China - the benefits continue.

Bt cotton is spreading very rapidly in China, in response to demand from farmers for technology that will reduce both the cost of pesticide applications and exposure to pesticides, and will free up time for other tasks. Based on surveys of hundreds of farmers in the Yellow River cotton-growing region in northern China in 1999, 2000 and 2001, over 4 million smallholders have been able to increas...

comparative study of pain relieving effect of dry cotton pellet and eugenol cotton pellet in the reduction of pain in emergoney pulpotomy

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Bt COTTON IN INDIA

A question of integrity: Variants of Bt cotton, pesticides, and productivity in Pakistan