Widawsky, David; Rozelle, Scott; Jin, Songqing; Huang, Jikun - In: Agricultural Economics of Agricultural Economists 19 (1998) 1-2
Pesticides are used as the primary method of pest control in Asian rice production. Conditions in China have led to … demand for high and increasing rice yields, resulting in intensive cultivation and adoption of fertilizer responsive … intensive rice production systems in eastern China, pesticide productivity is low compared to the productivity of host …