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| Title: | Fertilization: trade-offs between manure abatement and plant productivity |
| Authors: | Van der Straeten, Bart
Buysse, Jeroen
Marchand, Fleur L.
Lauwers, Ludwig H.
Claeys, Dakerlia
Van Huylenbroeck, Guido |
| Keywords: | manure abatement
nutrient emission rights
Tobit model |
| Issue Date: | 2008 |
| Abstract: | In 2005, 30% of the Flemish farms faced
a manure excess, while at aggregated level still 9.7% of the emission rights were unused. This means that, despite the various possibilities, Flemish farmers do not succeed in an effective exchange of manure between
farms. In current paper is shown how inorganic fertilizer use influences the use and exchange of organic nitrogen. Because of the mutual interdependency between organic and inorganic nitrogen emission rights (or quota), inorganic nitrogen use limits the emission rights for organic nitrogen. Utilisation of these emission rights are analysed as a trade-offs choice between plant
productivity (use of inorganic nitrogen) and manure disposal, as the major abatement alternative of manure production. Farmers still prefer inorganic fertilizers because of their effect on plant productivity and income. However, by changing the quota rent of organic nitrogen, the fertilization behaviour can be influenced. A higher quota rent of organic nitrogen would increase the use of manure. This trade-off behaviour seriously influences effectiveness of policies. When the objective is to lower the total nitrogen use, a mere reduction of organic quota can partially be counteracted by a higher inorganic nitrogen use. When
the objective is to better spread the manure, increasing the quota rent for deficit farms will increase their acceptance of manure. |
| URI: | http://purl.umn.edu/43642 |
| Institution/Association: | European Association of Agricultural Economists>2008 International Congress, August 26-29, 2008, Ghent, Belgium |
| Collections: | 2008 International Congress, August 26-29, 2008, Ghent, Belgium
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