Claim · model-written summary
No heterogeneous effects were detected by farmer age, schooling, or cultivated land.
- Taxon
- Eggplant
Solanum melongenat0 - Outcome
- heterogeneous effectse0
- Setting
- land cultivatede0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“We did not find evidence of heterogeneous effects by farmer age, schooling, or land cultivated”
t0“Bt Eggplant”
Title
The Impacts of GM Foods: Results from a Randomized Controlled Trial of Bt Eggplant in Bangladesh
Akhter U. Ahmed; John Hoddinott; Naveen Abedin; et al. American Journal of Agricultural Economics 2020. doi:10.1111/ajae.12162
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- Intervention effect Bt brinjal increased yield by 3,564 kg/ha, or 51% against control.
- Intervention effect Bt brinjal reduced pesticide costs by 7,175 Taka per hectare, or 37.5%.
- Intervention effect Bt farmers harvested more eggplant.
- Intervention effect Bt farmers discarded fewer damaged fruits.
- Intervention effect Bt brinjal farmers sold more eggplant.
- Intervention effect Bt brinjal farmers received a higher output price.
- Intervention effect Bt brinjal farmers had lower input costs.
- Intervention effect Bt brinjal increased net revenues by 128%.
- Intervention effect Bt farmers used smaller pesticide quantities.
- Intervention effect Bt farmers sprayed pesticides less frequently.
- Intervention effect Bt brinjal reduced pesticide toxicity by as much as 76%.
- Intervention effect Bt brinjal farmers with chronic conditions were 11.5 percentage points less likely to report a poisoning symptom.
- Intervention effect Bt brinjal farmers with chronic conditions were less likely to incur medical expenses for poisoning symptoms.