Size and Distribution of Market Benefits From Adopting Biotech Crops

By Gregory K. Price, William Lin, José B. Falck-Zepeda, and Jorge Fernandez-Cornejo

Technical Bulletin No. (TB-1906) 44 pp, November 2003

This study estimates the size and distribution of benefits from adopting Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) cotton, herbicide-tolerant cotton, and herbicide-tolerant soybeans in 1997. The stakeholders considered are U.S. farmers, U.S. consumers, biotechnology developers, germplasm suppliers, and producers and consumers in the rest of the world.

Keywords: Bt cotton, herbicide-tolerant cotton, herbicide-tolerant soybeans, agricultural biotechnology, market benefits, stakeholders, distribution of benefits, ERS, USDA

In this report ...

Chapters are in Adobe Acrobat PDF format.

• Research brief: PDF, 35 kb | HTML

• Abstract, Acknowledgments, Contents, 62 kb
• Summary, 52 kb
• Introduction, 68 kb
• Previous Related Studies, 68 kb
• Theoretical Framework, 187 kb
• Farm-Level Effects on Crop Yields and Pest Control Costs, 702kb
• Estimating the Size and Distribution of Market Benefits, 165 kb
• Sensitivity Analysis, 86 kb
• Conclusions, 45 kb
• References, 54 kb
• Appendix A: Empirical Model for Measuring the Changes in Economic Surpluses, 51 kb
• Appendix B: Differences in Estimated Surplus Changes for Herbicide-Tolerant Soybeans Due to Different Analytical Frameworks, 57 kb

• Entire document, 1,045 kb

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Updated date: November 7, 2003