No-till technology: benefits to farmers and the environment? Theoretical analysis and application to Finnish agriculture
We assess theoretically and empirically the private profitability and social desirability of conventional tillage and no-till when crop yields, production costs and nutrient and herbicide runoff damages are taken into account. Based on Finnish experimental data, no-till provides higher social and private profit than conventional tillage for barley but not for oats and wheat, for which the production cost advantage of no-till does not compensate for lower yields in the private optimum. As regards social returns, no-till provides slightly better overall environmental performance but, given the existing valuation of nutrient and herbicide runoff damage, this is not enough to give no-till an advantage in oats and wheat cultivation. Thus, the key factors determining the private and social profitability of no-till and conventional tillage are yields and production costs rather than environmental performance. Copyright 2006, Oxford University Press.
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2006
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Authors: | Lankoski, Jussi ; Ollikainen, Markku ; Uusitalo, Pekka |
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European Review of Agricultural Economics. - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE, ISSN 1464-3618. - Vol. 33.2006, 2, p. 193-221
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European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE |
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