Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/2461 
Year of Publication: 
2000
Series/Report no.: 
Kiel Working Paper No. 989
Publisher: 
Kiel Institute of World Economics (IfW), Kiel
Abstract: 
Despite favourable ecological and economic results, many developing countries have not yet adopted an integrated pesticide management (IPM). Given rising marginal costs and diminishing marginal benefits from IPM technology transfer, an optimal control framework is used to identify optimal rates of technology transfer. The framework is applied to Nepalese agriculture to illustrate the dynamic adoption process for IPM. The results indicate that public IPM technology transfer programs should be targeted to maintain about 50% of agricultural production in IPM. The benefit-cost ratio is approximately 7.9:1. If the educational program is financed by a tax on chemical inputs the benefit-cost ratio would be 9.1:1.
Subjects: 
cost-benefit analysis
extension
dynamic optimisation
Nepal
integrated pesticide management
JEL: 
Q2
Q16
D61
C61
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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