Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 49 Document Number: C00177
Notes:
451-457, Harold Swanson Collection, Mimeographed, 1983. 5 p. Paper presented at the 1983 National Agricultural Communicators in Education (ACE) Meeting; 1983 July 17-21; Madison, WI
8 pages, Does it matter whether farmers receive advice on pest management strategies from public or from private (pesticide company affiliated) extension services? We use survey data from 733 Swiss fruit growers who are currently contending with an infestation by an invasive pest, the fruit fly Drosophila Suzukii. We find that farmers who are advised by public extension services are more likely (+9–10%) to use preventive measures (e.g. nets) while farmers who are advised by private extension services are more likely (+8–9%) to use synthetic insecticides. These results are robust to the inclusion of various covariates, ways to cluster standard errors, and inverse probability weighting. We also show that our results are unlikely to be driven by omitted variable bias. Our findings have implications for the current debates on both the ongoing privatization of agricultural extension and concerns regarding negative environmental and health externalities of pesticide use.
Yang, Hsin-Pao (author / Food and Agriculture Organization, United Nations, Rome, Italy) and Food and Agriculture Organization, United Nations, Rome, Italy
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1952
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 42 Document Number: B04927
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 94 Document Number: C07106
Notes:
Snowdon, Urbana, IL: University of Illinois, Office of Agricultural Communications and Education, Information Services, 1993. 1 p. (Decision Data Summary, Information Guide to Communications Planning No. 32S)
