Claim · model-written summary
Non-GM pure-line high-density short-season varieties could help ameliorate farmer suicides.
- Taxon
- cotton
Gossypium hirsutume3 - Treatment
- Non-GM pure-line high-density short-season varietiese3
- Outcome
- suicidese3
- Direction
- help amelioratee3
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Verbatim
e3“Non-GM pure-line high-density short-season varieties could double rainfed cotton yield, reduce costs, decrease insecticide use, and help ameliorate suicides”
Title
Bio-economics of Indian hybrid Bt cotton and farmer suicides
Andrew Paul Gutierrez; Luigi Ponti; Keshav R. Kranthi; et al. Environmental Sciences Europe 2020. doi:10.1186/s12302-020-00406-6
Other claims from this paper (9)
- Observation The model captured the age-stage mass dynamics of rainfed and irrigated cotton and its interactions with pink bollworm across five states.
- Association The model identified proximate bioeconomic factors responsible for low cotton yield and their relationship to farmer suicides.
- Recommendation Short-season, high-density non-GM cotton is a highly viable solution for Indian cotton farmers.
- Intervention effect Non-GM pure-line high-density short-season varieties could double rainfed cotton yield.
- Intervention effect Non-GM pure-line high-density short-season varieties could reduce cotton costs.
- Intervention effect Non-GM pure-line high-density short-season varieties could decrease insecticide use in cotton.
- Intervention effect The current GM Bt technology adds costs in rainfed cotton without commensurate increases in yield.
- Intervention effect The current GM Bt technology adds costs in rainfed cotton.
- Mechanism The hybrid long-season Bt technology is suboptimal and is a proximate cause of cotton farmer suicides.