Sample selection model assessing professional scouting programs and pesticide use in cotton production
✍ Scribed by Jet Yee; Walter Ferguson
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1996
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 703 KB
- Volume
- 12
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0742-4477
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✦ Synopsis
A sample selection model is estimated using data from a 1989 survey of cotton farmers in the 14 major producing states to assess the efects of the farmer5 participation in a professional scouting program on pesticide use in cotton production. Our results, based on 1989 conditions, indicate that participation in a professional scouting program increases yield and the number of treatments per acre of pesticides (broadly defined to include herbicides, insecticides, fungicides, desiccants/defoliants, and growth regulators). Use of pest-resistant plants reduces the number of pesticide treatments per acre and irrigation increases the number of treatments per acre. 01996