Bt Cotton in India: Field Trial Results and Economic Projections

By M. Qaim. 2003

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Subfields: General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Molecular Biology, Plant Science

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Global water crisis and future food security in an era of climate change (2010, background): “A case study in the Kaithal and Karnal districts of Indo-Gangetic Plain in Haryana, India suggests that varying irrigation and fallowing for rainwater conservation and groundwater recharge 5 The adaptation deficit means that best-bet options in water sector adaptations to climate change are known bu”
Village-wide Effects of Agricultural Biotechnology: The Case of Bt Cotton in India (2009, background): “Among the beneficial impacts of Bt cotton, significant yield increases and pesticide reductions have been reported for different countries (e.g., Pray, Ma, Huang, & Qiao, 2001; Qaim, 2003; Qaim & de Janvry, 2003; Thirtle, Byers, Ismael, & Piesse, 2003).”
Bt cotton and pesticide use in Argentina: economic and environmental effects (2005, background): “For details on intellectual property protection and corporate pricing strategies in Argentina, see Qaim and de Janvry (2003).”
EU Food Safety Standards, Pesticide Use and Farm‐level Productivity: The Case of High‐value Crops in Kenya (2009, unknown): “Following the work of Lichtenberg and Zilberman (1986), Ajayi (2000), Huang et al. (2002), Qaim (2003), Qaim and Zilbermann (2003), Pemsl (2006) and Shankar and Thirtle (2005), this study takes the ‘damage control’ approach to establishing pesticide productivity and computing economic optima for…”
A Comparison of Arthropod Communities in Transgenic Bt and Conventional Cotton in Australia (2005, background): “…cottons have provided much more consistent control of Heliothis/Helicoverpa spp. and have had a major impact on cotton production wherever they have been commercially adopted by signiÞcantly reducing pesticide inputs (Benedict and Altman 2001, Fitt and Wilson 2000, Perlak et al. 2001, Qaim 2003).”
Economic and agronomic impact of commercialized GM crops: a meta-analysis (2012, unknown): “Rao & Dev (2009) 2004 India Bt cotton 1(+) 0·8 NA 1(+) 72 NA 1(+) 70 NA Sadashivappa & Qaim (2009) 2003, 2005, 2007 India Bt cotton 3(+) 0·5 0·11 3(+) 60 20·0 3(+) 117 23·9”
Specification and Estimation of Production Functions Involving Damage Control Inputs: A Two-Stage, Semiparametric Approach (2006, background): “…approach in applications (see e.g., Babcock, Lichtenberg, and Zilberman, 1992; Carrasco-Tauber and Moffit, 1992; Oude Lansink and Carpentier, 2001), especially in the productivity assessment of Bt crops (Huang et al., 2002; Pemsl, Waibel, and Gutierrez, 2005; Qaim, 2003; Thirtle et al., 2003).”
The Impact of Bt Cotton on Poor Households in Rural India (2008, background): “effects entail significant gains in economic surplus (for example, Pray et al., 2001; Qaim, 2003).”
Economic Impact of Genetically Modified Cotton in India (2004, background): “Qaim (2003), for example, analyzed trial data from seed companies testing Bt cotton and concluded that quantities of insecticide can be reduced by about one third relative to conventional (non-Bt) varieties, and yield gains can be up to 80% in seasons with bad bollworm infestations (a typical…”
Field versus Farm in Warangal: Bt Cotton, Higher Yields, and Larger Questions (2011, methodology): “…et al., 2007, Table 4) link Bt cotton to increased pesticide use, the strong pattern in peer-reviewed research is for insecticide use to drop with Bt cotton adoption (Bennett, Ismael, Kambhampati, & Morse, 2004; Bennett, Ismael, & Morse, 2005; Bennett et al., 2006; Qaim, 2003; Qaim et al., 2006).”
The Economics of Genetically Modified Crops (2009, background): “In India, Bt cotton surplus gains were projected at $315 million for 2005 (Qaim 2003).”