 How does farmers' current usage of crop straws influence the willingness-to-accept price to sell?Alec Zuo (), Lingling Hou and Zeying Huang Energy Economics, 2020, vol. 86, issue C Abstract: To further develop the second-generation biofuel industry, both government and business sectors need to better comprehend the full costs of buying crop straws from farmers – understanding transportation and baling costs alone is insufficient. Due to the limited market activity of crop straws, this paper uses the contingent valuation method to elicit farmers' willingness-to-accept (WTA) price to sell their crop straws in northeast China. The results from finite mixed models showed that the estimated WTA for maize straw was 9.6 yuan/ton, 43.2 yuan/ton and 83.2 yuan/ton across different farm groups. For rice straw, the WTA for the first farm group was 51 yuan/ton and 204 yuan/ton for the second group. Our results also show that both rice and maize farmers place a higher price on crop straw if it is used in more productive ways, such as for domestic fuel, animal feed or selling; but place a lower price when it is burnt as crop residue in the field. Keywords: Crop residue; CVM; WTA; China (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:eneeco:v:86:y:2020:i:c:s0140988319304360 DOI: 10.1016/j.eneco.2019.104639 Access Statistics for this article Energy Economics is currently edited by R. S. J. Tol, Beng Ang, Lance Bachmeier, Perry Sadorsky, Ugur Soytas and J. P. Weyant More articles in Energy Economics from Elsevier |
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