1st Edition
Pesticide Policy, Production Risk, and Producer Welfare An Econometric Approach to Applied Welfare Economics
By Pierre R. Crosson
Copyright 1988
148 Pages
by
Routledge
148 Pages
by
Routledge
148 Pages
by
Routledge
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The use of pesticides to control agricultural pests both benefits farm production and imposes health and environmental costs on producers and society. This title, first published in 1988, includes an application of the author’s methodology to tomato production, in which Antle illuminates the roles that alternative methods of pest management play in producer welfare. He also develops a more... Read more
Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction 2. An Overview of the Issues 3. Theoretical Foundations 4. Econometric Measurement of Producer Efficiency and Welfare 5. A Case Study: California Processing-Tomato Production 6. Summary and Conclusions; References
Biography
John M. Antle
