Pest control ability, technical guidance, and pesticide overuse: evidence from rice farmers in rural China

Huang, Yanzhong; Luo, Xiaowen; Liu, Di; Du, Sanxia; Yan, Aqian; Tang, Lin

doi:10.1007/s11356-021-13607-0

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“…Similarly, the effects of education and family income are positive, which suggests that rice farmers with more education and higher incomes are more likely to have access to biopesticide extension services, as these farmers are often labeled "elite" in rural areas. The influence of production purposes is negative because subsistence rice farmers are generally smallholders, and the supply of agricultural extension they participate in cannot be effectively guaranteed (Huang et al, 2021). The impact of the rice scale is positive, indicating that rice farmers with larger scales are more likely to participate in biopesticide extension.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Of course, this study has only empirically demonstrated agricultural extension by public government agricultural organizations and has not yet addressed the role played by for-profit market agents (e.g., pesticide retailers) in the biopesticide extension system (Constantine et al, 2020;Wuepper et al, 2021;Huang et al, 2021). In addition, we believe that while conducting biopesticide extension, it is equally crucial to cultivate the demand for biopesticide technology among rice farmers.…”

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confidence: 96%

“…(4) Other variables: To ensure the rationality of the model setting, other important factors affecting farmers' biopesticide adoption were controlled as much as possible and mainly include factors such as rice farmers' personal characteristics, family characteristics, production characteristics, market characteristics, and farmers' cognition (Constantine et al, 2020;Paul et al, 2020;Huang et al, 2021). The variable definitions are detailed in Table 1.…”

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“…Agricultural extension can deliver biopesticide technology information to farmers, compensating for the misuse of pesticides caused by information ① Pesticide product market statistics results from the China Pesticide Information Network: http://www.chinapesticide.org.cn/. asymmetry (Yang et al, 2014;Huang et al, 2021). Some previous studies have also shown that technical training and demonstration are beneficial to farmers' biopesticide adoption (Feder et al, 2004;Grovermann et al, 2017).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Biopesticide Extension and Rice Farmers' Adoption Behavior: A Survey From Rural China

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Luo³

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Although the beneficial effects of the agricultural extension of farmers’ biopesticide adoption have been largely demonstrated, the questions of what approaches can better extend biopesticides and how to improve the inefficiencies of biopesticide extension still need to be explored. In a survey of 1148 rice farmers in Hubei Province, China, the technology supply and demand theory was used to explain the low efficiency of biopesticide extension. The endogenous switching probit model was used to estimate the impact of biopesticide technology publicity, training, demonstration and subsidies on farmers’ adoption. The results show that biopesticide extension can promote rice farmers’ adoption probability by 10.3% ~ 11.7%. Among these methods, technology demonstration is currently the best way to extend biopesticides. Moreover, inadequate supply and demand of biopesticides are important for explaining the inefficiency of biopesticide extension in China. Extending biopesticides is better for farmers with smaller scales, younger ages, and lower education and for those who are cooperative members. Therefore, we should not only actively conduct biopesticide demonstration but also more importantly induce farmers’ biopesticide demand and secure the market supply of biopesticide products. These findings will provide useful guidance for biopesticide extension and pesticide reduction in China and other developing countries.

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Section: Simultaneous Estimation Results Of the Selection Equation And Results Equationmentioning

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Biopesticide Extension and Rice Farmers' Adoption Behavior: A Survey From Rural China

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“…According to the statistics, the adoption rate of biopesticides is 70.8%, and the adoption rate of chemical pesticides is 83.4%. Some scholars only aim to study how to improve the adoption rate of biopesticides 10,11 or reduce the use of chemical pesticides, 20,25 but in the process overlook the important fact that a large number of rice farmers use both biopesticides and chemical pesticides.…”

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Substitution or complementarity: why do rice farmers use a mix of biopesticides and chemical pesticides in China?

Huang

Luo

2022

Pest Management Science

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BACKGROUND: Although scholars have become increasingly concerned about finding ways to encourage more farmers to use biopesticides and fewer to use chemical pesticides, few studies have investigated the prevalence of Chinese rice farmers' mixed use of biopesticides and chemical pesticides for pest management.RESULTS: Based on a household survey in Hubei Province, China, this study found that 59.18% of the sample rice farmers used a mix of biopesticides and chemical pesticides. There is mainly a complementarity relationship between rice farmers' decision to use biopesticides and chemical pesticides. The pursuit of multiple production purposes is the main reason why farmers decide on the mixed-use of pesticides. Specifically, farmers generally tend to use biopesticides to ensure food safety for consumption, and chemical pesticides to reduce costs for profitability. The decision of farmers to mix pesticides has led to an increase of pesticide varieties and costs. However, it reduces the frequency of pesticide use, and does not result in a significant increase in rice yield and output value.CONCLUSION: While food safety should be emphasized in working towards greater use of biopesticides, rice farmers' mixed use of biopesticides and chemical pesticides will remain for a long time until the biotechnology is more developed. In fact, programs that investigate the effects of a combination of biopesticides and chemical pesticides should be implemented to achieve pesticide reduction, because biopesticides and chemical pesticides have specific disadvantages.

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Can outsourcing pest and disease control help reduce pesticide expenditure? Evidence from rice farmers

Wang,

Ma,

Diao

2024

Agribusiness

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Outsourcing pest and disease control (PDC) has grown rapidly worldwide, especially in developing countries. Although numerous studies have investigated various advantages of outsourcing PDC, little is known about its impact on pesticide expenditure. This study addresses the gap by estimating the impact of outsourcing PDC on pesticide expenditure using data collected from 448 rice farmers in China. We employ an endogenous treatment regression (ETR) model and an instrumental variable quantile regression (IVQR) model to investigate the homogenous and heterogeneous impacts of outsourcing PDC, respectively. The results estimated by the ETR model show that outsourcing PDC decreases total pesticide expenditure. The reduction in herbicide expenditure due to outsourcing PDC is greater than the reduction in insecticide expenditure. The results estimated by the IVQR model reveal that the pesticide expenditure reduction effect of outsourcing PDC is larger among farmers with higher pesticide expenditure. Our findings generally suggest that it is necessary to take outsourcing PDC into consideration when designing policies to promote pesticide expenditure reduction and protect the ecological environment and human health.

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Pest control ability, technical guidance, and pesticide overuse: evidence from rice farmers in rural China

Cited by 30 publications

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Biopesticide Extension and Rice Farmers' Adoption Behavior: A Survey From Rural China

Biopesticide Extension and Rice Farmers' Adoption Behavior: A Survey From Rural China

Substitution or complementarity: why do rice farmers use a mix of biopesticides and chemical pesticides in China?

Can outsourcing pest and disease control help reduce pesticide expenditure? Evidence from rice farmers

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