Pesticides Efficiency Of French Wheat Producers Under A Stochastic Frontier Framework

Efficacité des pesticides des producteurs de blé français dans un cadre de frontière stochastique

K Hervé Dakpo () and Fabienne Femenia
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K Hervé Dakpo: ECO-PUB - Economie Publique - AgroParisTech - Université Paris-Saclay - INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement, ETH Zürich - Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology [Zürich]

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Abstract: Pesticides efficiency is assessed under a damage control specification and an adaptation to the stochastic frontier framework. The results reveal a lower level of efficiency about 67% implying that pesticides levels can be reduced by about 33% while maintaining the farmer's revenues unchanged. The corresponding level of damage control is around 50% while an efficient use of pesticides can level up the damage control to about 63%. On another hand CAP subsidy received by producer appear to have a positive impact on pesticides efficiency. We have also control for the role of crop diversification entropy on the damage control. The results show an average negative effect of crop diversification though 30% of the observations have registered a positive impact.

Keywords: Stochastic Frontier Analysis; Pesticides; Input use efficiency; Damage control (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021-07-20
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Published in XVI EAAE Virtual Congress - Raising the Impact of Agricultural Economics: Multidisciplinarity, Stakeholder Engagement and Novel Approaches, EAAE - European Association of Agricultural Economists, Jul 2021, Prague, Czech Republic

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Working Paper: Pesticides efficiency of French wheat producers under a stochastic frontier framework (2019)
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