@article{Li:126745,
      recid = {126745},
      author = {Li, Luping and Huang, Jikun and Hu, Ruifa and Pray, Carl  E.},
      title = {Can drought-tolerant varieties produce more food with less  water? An empirical analysis of rice farming in China},
      address = {2012-08},
      number = {1007-2016-79594},
      pages = {22},
      year = {2012},
      abstract = {Most of the poorest people live in rural areas worldwide,  characterized by uncertain
rainfall, low levels of input  use, and low returns to land and labor. Farmers in  these
risky production environments often face drought that  interacts with many other
agronomic stresses to reduce  yields and push them deeper into poverty and hunger.
The  primary objective of this paper is to estimate the effects  that have resulted from
the adoption of drought-tolerant  rice. Food security and water shortage are two
major  challenges for China. Rice is a staple food for most  Chinese people and has
played an important role in ensuring  food security in China. This paper assesses the
impacts of  Hanyou 3, one of the drought-tolerant rice varieties that  have been
released to farmers’ fields already in China, on  water use and rice production. The
results indicated that  the rice farmers gave less irrigation to DT variety as  compared
to non-DT variety, saving about 30-40% of water  over non-DT variety. It is also found
that the DT rice  variety in China yielded as much as existing high-yielding  varieties
under normal or high rainfall conditions.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/126745},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.126745},
}