This paper examines the ecosystem impacts of transgenic Bt cotton technology resulting from reduced chemical pesticide use. Employing unique panel data from smallholder farmers in central and southern India, negative environmental and health effects of pesticide use are quantified with the...

This study has critically examined the issue of Cotton subsidies in USA as well made a comparative analysis of cotton sector between USA and India in the background of USA claim that African Cotton producers' plight was not due to the trade-distorting subsidies of USA but was on account of...

Cotton is a crop that underwent continuous technology and policy shifts over period of time, and thus is a test case through which one can examine the changes in the growth and associated instability. The major technology and policy changes cotton cultivation saw include the commercial hybrids'...