Impacts of low pesticides practices on farmers' crop production decision: Estimation based on observed French data

Adélaïde Fadhuile (), Fabienne Femenia () and Elodie Letort ()
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Adélaïde Fadhuile: GAEL - Laboratoire d'Economie Appliquée de Grenoble - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement - UGA - Université Grenoble Alpes - Grenoble INP - Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology - UGA - Université Grenoble Alpes
Fabienne Femenia: SMART - Structures et Marché Agricoles, Ressources et Territoires - INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement - Institut Agro Rennes Angers - Institut Agro - Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Elodie Letort: SMART - Structures et Marché Agricoles, Ressources et Territoires - INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement - Institut Agro Rennes Angers - Institut Agro - Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement

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Abstract: Economic analysis of alternatives to pesticide use are generally limited by the lack of accurate data on farmers' production practices, such as detailed information on the frequency and composition of pesticide applications or on tillage practices, which may be used as alternative to pesticides. Our objective in this paper is twofold. First, we propose a procedure to introduce additional information, obtained from a survey on farmers' production practices into the FADN database usually used for micro-level analysis of farmers' behaviours. Second, we use this information to estimate econometric models of crop production choices for different practices in terms of pesticide uses. We especially focus on the role of tillage as an alternative to herbicide uses. These estimated economic models aim at being used to simulate the impacts of a pesticide tax on the reduction of pesticide use, taking into account the change in crop production practices induced by the tax.

Keywords: Public policy design; Pesticides; Data matching; Econometric model; Farmer heterogeneity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2026-06-04
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Published in 42nd Journées de Microéconomie Appliquée (JMA), Jun 2026, Grenoble, France

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