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The spread of pesticide practices among cost efficient farmers

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  • Jean-Philippe Boussemart

    (LEM-CNRS (UMR 8179), IESEG School of Management)

  • Hervé Leleu

    (CNRS-LEM (UMR 8179), IESEG School of Management)

  • Oluwaseun Ojo

    (CNRS-LEM (UMR 8179), IESEG School of Management)

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to analyse the spread of pesticide practices with respect to crop production (wheat, barley, and rapeseed) in French agriculture and to evaluate the potential pesticide reductions for cost-efficient farmers. This is made possible by conducting a double-step analysis based on non-parametric robust technology. First, from a panel data of 650 farms over a 12-year period located in the French department of Meuse, we selected the cost-efficient farms thanks to a robust free disposal hull (RFDH) technology. A second RFDH frontier analysis was run only on the selected cost-efficient farms thus enabling us to reveal the units which minimize the pesticide use per hectare while maintaining constant yields. Therefore, all the different total cost-efficient practices among farmers were evaluated in terms of pesticide per hectare and the minimum uses were selected. Our main conclusion is that the pesticide reductions per hectare for the cost-efficient farms could reach 24 %.
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  • Jean-Philippe Boussemart & Hervé Leleu & Oluwaseun Ojo, 2010. "The spread of pesticide practices among cost efficient farmers," Working Papers 2010-ECO-05, IESEG School of Management.
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    1. Bingfei Bao & Anli Jiang & Shengtian Jin & Rui Zhang, 2021. "The Evolution and Influencing Factors of Total Factor Productivity of Grain Production Environment: Evidence from Poyang Lake Basin, China," Land, MDPI, vol. 10(6), pages 1-21, June.

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    pesticide; cost; efficiency; agriculture; environmental performance; Free Disposal Hull;
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