Is environmentally-friendly agriculture less profitable for farmers?: evidence on integrated pest management in Bangladesh (Record no. 49924)

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Classification number 338.10954145
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Personal name Dasgupta, Susmita
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Title Is environmentally-friendly agriculture less profitable for farmers?: evidence on integrated pest management in Bangladesh
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Place of publication, distribution, etc Washington, D.C.
Name of publisher, distributor, etc World Bank
Date of publication, distribution, etc 2004
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Extent 26 p.
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Title Policy Research Working Paper No. 3417
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Summary, etc Concerns about the sustainability of conventional agriculture have prompted widespread introduction of integrated pest management (IPM), an ecologically-based approach to control of harmful insects and weeds. IPM is intended to reduce ecological and health damage from chemical pesticides by using natural parasites and predators to control pest populations. Since chemical pesticides are expensive for poor farmers, IPM offers the prospect of lower production costs and higher profitability. However, adoption of IPM may reduce profitability if it also lowers overall productivity, or induces more intensive use of other production factors. On the other hand, IPM may actually promote more productive farming by encouraging more skillful use of available resources. Data scarcity has hindered a full accounting of IPM's impact on profitability, health, and local ecosystems. Using new survey data, the authors attempt such an accounting for rice farmers in Bangladesh. They compare outcomes for farming with IPM and conventional techniques, using input-use accounting, conventional production functions, and frontier production estimation. All of their results suggest that the productivity of IPM rice farming is not significantly different from the productivity of conventional farming. Since IPM reduces pesticide costs with no countervailing loss in production, it appears to be more profitable than conventional rice farming. The interview results also suggest substantial health and ecological benefits. However, externality problems make it difficult for farmers to adopt IPM individually. Without collective adoption, neighbors' continued reliance on chemicals to kill pests will also kill helpful parasites and predators, as well as exposing IPM farmers and local ecosystems to chemical spillovers from adjoining fields. Successful IPM adoption may therefore depend on institutional support for collective action.<br/><br/>http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/914641468768710051/Is-environmentally-friendly-agriculture-less-profitable-for-farmers-evidence-on-integrated-pest-management-in-Bangladesh
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Agriculture - Environmental aspects - Bangladesh
9 (RLIN) 43462
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Pests-control - Bangladesh
9 (RLIN) 43819
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Personal name Meisner, Craig
9 (RLIN) 18207
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Personal name Wheeler, David
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Classification part D2I8
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    Dewey Decimal Classification     Vikram Sarabhai Library Vikram Sarabhai Library General Stacks 04/05/2009 Rack 22-A / Slot 860 (0 Floor, East Wing)   338.10954145 D2I8 158476 04/09/2009 Books