IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/ags/saea18/266322.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

The Benefits of Public Rice Breeding

Author

Listed:
  • Shew, Aaron
  • Nalley, Lawton Lanier
  • Durand, Alvaro
  • Moldenhauer, Karen

Abstract

In this study, we estimate increases in producer revenue from the genetic gains of the rice breeding program at the University of Arkansas (UofA) Division of Agriculture from 1983 – 2016. Rice producers are paid based on both the quantity of rice and the quality of rice. Therefore, we implement a cluster specific fixed-effects model based on location and year to identify the contributions of the UofA breeding program for both paddy yields (quantity) and head rice yields (quality attribute) over time. Including spillover benefits from all UofA varieties, we find that on average US rice producers gain 30.9 million USD annually from the adoption of UofA rice varieties.

Suggested Citation

  • Shew, Aaron & Nalley, Lawton Lanier & Durand, Alvaro & Moldenhauer, Karen, 2018. "The Benefits of Public Rice Breeding," 2018 Annual Meeting, February 2-6, 2018, Jacksonville, Florida 266322, Southern Agricultural Economics Association.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:saea18:266322
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.266322
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/266322/files/The%20Benefits%20of%20Public%20Rice%20Breeding.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/266322/files/The%20Benefits%20of%20Public%20Rice%20Breeding.pdf?subformat=pdfa
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.22004/ag.econ.266322?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. James H. Stock & Mark W. Watson, 2008. "Heteroskedasticity-Robust Standard Errors for Fixed Effects Panel Data Regression," Econometrica, Econometric Society, vol. 76(1), pages 155-174, January.
    2. Shenggen Fan & Peter Hazell & Sukhadeo Thorat, 2000. "Government Spending, Growth and Poverty in Rural India," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, vol. 82(4), pages 1038-1051.
    3. Wallace E. Huffman & Richard E. Just, 1999. "Agricultural Research: Benefits and Beneficiaries of Alternative Funding Mechanisms," Review of Agricultural Economics, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, vol. 21(1), pages 2-18.
    4. Julian M. Alston, 2010. "The Benefits from Agricultural Research and Development, Innovation, and Productivity Growth," OECD Food, Agriculture and Fisheries Papers 31, OECD Publishing.
    5. Evenson, Robert E., 2001. "Economic impacts of agricultural research and extension," Handbook of Agricultural Economics, in: B. L. Gardner & G. C. Rausser (ed.), Handbook of Agricultural Economics, edition 1, volume 1, chapter 11, pages 573-628, Elsevier.
    6. Grant M. Scobie & Rafael Posada T., 1978. "The Impact of Technical Change on Income Distribution: The Case of Rice in Colombia," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, vol. 60(1), pages 85-92.
    7. Fan, Shenggen & Hazell, P. B. R. & Thorat, Sukhadeo, 1999. "Linkages between government spending, growth, and poverty in rural India:," Research reports 110, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).
    8. Morris, M. L. & Heisey, P. W., 2003. "Estimating the benefits of plant breeding research: methodological issues and practical challenges," Agricultural Economics, Blackwell, vol. 29(3), pages 241-252, December.
    9. Keller, Wouter J., 1976. "A nested CES-type utility function and its demand and price-index functions," European Economic Review, Elsevier, vol. 7(2), pages 175-186, February.
    10. Durand-Morat, Alvaro & Wailes, Eric J., 2010. "Riceflow: a Multi-region, Multi-product, Spatial Partial Equilibrium Model of the World Rice Economy," Staff Papers 92010, University of Arkansas, Department of Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Aaron Michael Shew & Alvaro Durand‐Morat & Lawton Lanier Nalley & Karen Ann‐Kuenzel Moldenhauer, 2018. "Estimating the benefits of public plant breeding: beyond profits," Agricultural Economics, International Association of Agricultural Economists, vol. 49(6), pages 753-764, November.
    2. Mogues, Tewodaj & Yu, Bingxin & Fan, Shenggen & Mcbride, Linden, 2012. "The impacts of public investment in and for agriculture: Synthesis of the existing evidence," IFPRI discussion papers 1217, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).
    3. Chakraborty, Lekha, 2014. "Gender responsive budgeting, as fiscal innovation: Evidence from India on "Processes"," Working Papers 14/128, National Institute of Public Finance and Policy.
    4. Narayanamoorthy, A. & Hanjra, Munir A., 2006. "Rural Infrastructure and Agricultural Output Linkages: A Study of 256 Indian Districts," Indian Journal of Agricultural Economics, Indian Society of Agricultural Economics, vol. 61(3), pages 1-16.
    5. Huang, Qiuqiong & Rozelle, Scott & Lohmar, Bryan & Huang, Jikun & Wang, Jinxia, 2006. "Irrigation, agricultural performance and poverty reduction in China," Food Policy, Elsevier, vol. 31(1), pages 30-52, February.
    6. Stéphane Lemarié & Valérie Orozco & Jean-Pierre Butault & Antonio Musolesi & Michel Simioni & Bertrand Schmitt, 2020. "Assessing the long-term impact of agricultural research on productivity: evidence from France," European Review of Agricultural Economics, Oxford University Press and the European Agricultural and Applied Economics Publications Foundation, vol. 47(4), pages 1559-1586.
    7. Yeboah Asuamah, Samuel, 2016. "Modelling the Effect of Investment on Agricultural Productivity in Ghana," MPRA Paper 70606, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    8. Robert Evenson & Keith Fuglie, 2010. "Technology capital: the price of admission to the growth club," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 33(3), pages 173-190, June.
    9. Gustavo Anríquez & William Foster & Jorge Ortega & César Falconi & Carmine Paolo De Salvo, 2016. "Public Expenditures and the Performance of Latin American and Caribbean Agriculture," IDB Publications (Working Papers) 95696, Inter-American Development Bank.
    10. Mukherjee, Anit N. & Kuroda, Yoshimi, 2003. "Productivity growth in Indian agriculture: is there evidence of convergence across states?," Agricultural Economics, Blackwell, vol. 29(1), pages 43-53, July.
    11. Benin, Samuel & Mogues, Tewodaj & Cudjoe, Godsway & Randriamamonjy, Josee, 2009. "Public expenditures and agricultural productivity growth in Ghana," 2009 Conference, August 16-22, 2009, Beijing, China 51634, International Association of Agricultural Economists.
    12. Fatima, Amber & Shahbaz, Muhammad & Islam, Faridul, 2012. "Nexus of Trade, Investment and Poverty: Evidence from Pakistan," Bangladesh Development Studies, Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS), vol. 35(2), pages 87-108, June.
    13. Stefan Dercon & Daniel O. Gilligan & John Hoddinott & Tassew Woldehanna, 2009. "The Impact of Agricultural Extension and Roads on Poverty and Consumption Growth in Fifteen Ethiopian Villages," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, vol. 91(4), pages 1007-1021.
    14. Asif Reza Anik & Sanzidur Rahman & Jaba Rani Sarker, 2017. "Agricultural Productivity Growth and the Role of Capital in South Asia (1980–2013)," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 9(3), pages 1-24, March.
    15. Anríquez, Gustavo & Foster, William & Ortega, Jorge & Falconi, César & De Salvo, Carmine Paolo, 2016. "Public Expenditures and the Performance of Latin American and Caribbean Agriculture," IDB Publications (Working Papers) 7839, Inter-American Development Bank.
    16. Gustavo Anríquez & William Foster & Jorge Ortega, 2020. "Rural and agricultural subsidies in Latin America: Development costs of misallocated public resources," Development Policy Review, Overseas Development Institute, vol. 38(1), pages 140-158, January.
    17. Moon, Wanki, 2018. "The Lack of Dynamic Gains from Trade in Agriculture: Implications for Governing Agricultural Trade," 2018 Annual Meeting, February 2-6, 2018, Jacksonville, Florida 266613, Southern Agricultural Economics Association.
    18. Rosegrant, Mark W. & Fan, Shenggen & Otsuka, Keijiro, 2021. "Global issues in agricultural development," IFPRI book chapters, in: Agricultural development: New perspectives in a changing world, chapter 2, pages 35-78, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).
    19. Pratt, Alejandro Nin & Fan, Shenggen, 2010. "R&D investment in national and international agricultural research," IFPRI discussion papers 986, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).
    20. Daniel F. Mooney & Scott M. Swinton & Cristian Subía & Eduardo Peralta, 2022. "Returns to Disease Resistance Research When Pest Management Is an Option," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(5), pages 1-15, March.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:ags:saea18:266322. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: AgEcon Search (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/saeaaea.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.