Pesticide usage and the choice of pest control strategy: a switching regression analysis
1984
Hanemann, W.M. | Tsur, Y. | Zilberman, D.
Extract: The adoption of integrated pest managment (IPM) as a substitute for conventional chemical pest management (CPM) is an important issue in current agricultural and environmental policy. The factors which influence growers' decisions to adopt IPM and the effects of IPM adoption on agricultural productivity and the intensity of pesticide usage are fundamental questions which must be resolved before environental control strategies can be evaluated. The purpose of this paper is to develop a methodology for analyzing these issues which is suitable for empirical application, using data that cen readily be obtained from grower surveys. After describing the theoretical model and the procedures for estimating it, we will present an example of an application using data on a sample of cotton growers in the San Joaquin Valley in California.
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