Biosafety management and pesticide use in China's Bt cotton production

Jikun Huang, Ruijian Chen, Fangbin Qiao and Kongming Wu

China Economic Review, 2015, vol. 33, issue C, 67-75

Abstract: As the rapid development of Genetically Modified crops, Chinese government has been increasing its efforts in GM crop biosafety management. However, the rapid expansion of Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) cotton varieties and less regulated seed industry also resulted in a large amount of Bt cotton varieties that bypassed China's biosafety regulations. This study shows that the Bt cotton varieties without biosafety certificates (BC) have been widely used by farmers in practice. Econometric analysis further shows that the Bt cotton varieties with BC outperform the varieties without BC in terms of pesticide use. The paper concludes with policy implications.

Keywords: Biosafety regulation; Pesticide use; Bt cotton; China (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q12 Q16 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.chieco.2015.01.006

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