@article{Tang:241957,
      recid = {241957},
      author = {Tang, Liqun and Zhou, Jiehong and Yu, Xiaohua},
      title = {Can Stress Tolerant Variety Help Reduce Rice Yield Loss  from Climate Extremes? Evidence from Chinese Rice Farms},
      address = {2016},
      number = {333-2016-14684},
      pages = {33},
      year = {2016},
      note = {Updated version for AAEA full paper},
      abstract = {Climate extremes, characterized by droughts and floods,  have become one of the major constraints to sustainable  improvement of rice productivity. Variety choice,  considered as one of the main adaptation measures, could  help farmers reduce yield loss resulting from these  extremes. Based on a three-year panel survey of 1,080  Chinese rice farms in major rice producing provinces, we  study the effect of adopting stress tolerant variety rice  as a main adaptation measure against climate extremes.  Taking into account the endogeneity of adoption behavior,  we employ an endogenous switching regression to separately  estimate the treatment effects of adoption for adopters and  non-adopters. We find that farmers who adopted the new  variety increased yield by 537 kg/ha (about 7%), compared  with the counterfactual case of no-adoption. In contrast,  the farmers who did not adopt, would increase rice yield by  272 kg/ha (about 4 %) if they adopted, much smaller than  the adopters. However, adoption of new variety demands more  knowledge, better education, more intensive management, and  higher seed costs. As a policy implication, expansion of  public extension services could help relax these  restrictions.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/241957},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.241957},
}