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| Title: | The Genetic and Economic Impact of the University of Arkansas’s Rice Breeding Program: 1983–2007 |
| Authors: | Nalley, Lawton Lanier
Moldenhauer, Karen A.
Lyman, Nathaniel |
| Keywords: | economic impact of technological change
Just and Pope
public rice breeding |
| JEL Codes: | O13
O32
Q16 |
| Issue Date: | 2011-02 |
| Abstract: | This study estimates the proportion of rice yield increase in University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture’s (UofA) released rice cultivars that are attributable to genetic improvements through the University’s breeding program. Test plot data from eight UofA experiment stations were used to quantify the yield increases and potential yield growth decreases over
time. In addition to quantifying the yield and yield variance evolution at the UofA, this study also calculates the economic benefits of the UofA rice breeding program. Results indicated that by releasing modern rice cultivars, the UofA rice breeding program increased average producer yield by 0.68 bu/ac annually. During the last decade, 1997–2007, the average annual economic benefits were 34.3 million (2007) dollars. When accounting for the spillover of
UofA rice varieties to neighboring states the average annual economic benefit of the breeding program increases to 46.7 million (2007) dollars. |
| URI: | http://purl.umn.edu/100653 |
| Institution/Association: | Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics>Volume 43, Number 01, February 2011 |
| Total Pages: | 12 |
| From Page: | 131 |
| To Page: | 142 |
| Collections: | Volume 43, Number 01, February 2011
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