Coping with ex-ante regulations for planting Bt maize: the Portuguese experience

Theodoros Skevas, Justus Wesseler and Pedro Fevereiro

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Abstract: This article investigates the attitude and practices of Bt and non-Bt maize farmers in Portugal. Thirty-seven Bt maize farmers were interviewed, representing 22.5% of the total number of Bt maize notifications in the country and 31.5% of the total area planted with Bt maize in 2007. Additionally, 66 non-Bt maize farmers were surveyed in an attempt to investigate their opinion on the Bt technology, its viability, and its future. The most interesting finding is that almost half of all the surveyed maize farmers stated that the ex-ante regulations are rigid and difficult to apply.

Keywords: agriculture; coexistence; Bt maize; Portugal; regulation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L51 O13 O3 O33 Q1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009-01
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Published in AgBioForum 1.12(2009): pp. 60-69

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