'Bt cotton' benefits, costs and impacts in China

By Jikun Huang, R. Hu, C. Fan, C. Pray, Scott Rozelle. 2003

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The Economics of Pesticides and Pest Control (2007, result): “Huang et al. (2002) found similar results in China and used the damage control model to estimate the marginal product of cotton containing the Bt gene (Bt cotton).”
The Shifting Patterns of Agricultural Production and Productivity Worldwide (2010, background): “Notably Bt cotton varieties emanating from the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences and foreign firms had measurable productivity-promoting effects in the Chinese cotton sector throughout this period (Huang et al. 2002).”
A Meta Analysis on Farm-Level Costs and Benefits of GM Crops (2011, unknown): “Indeed rising pest infestation has led to a sharp increase in pesticide use in China [17,18].”
Economic and agronomic impact of commercialized GM crops: a meta-analysis (2012, background): “This skewness is due to a number of observations taken from studies in China (Pray et al. 2001; Huang et al. 2002a), where the purchase of pesticides for conventional cotton were reported to incur relatively high costs; more specifically, these authors report up to ten times higher pesticide costs…”