Pesticide Productivity in Green Revolution Rice Production: A Case Study of Vietnam

Erik Lichtenberg () and Khanh Linh Thi Nguyen

No 20757, 2001 Annual meeting, August 5-8, Chicago, IL from American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association)

Abstract: Data envelopment analysis is applied to original farm-level data to investigate pesticide productivity in Vietnamese rice production. Pesticides are shown to have detrimental effects on productivity. A program aimed at reducing pesticide use is shown to be more cost-efficient in some circumstances and no less technically efficient.

Keywords: Crop Production/Industries (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2001
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