Abstract
Abstract Damage control affects both realized output and product quality; ignoring quality leads to underestimates of damage control agent productivity. Empirical analysis of pesticide use in North Carolina apple production using the damage control approach shows that fungicides and pruning reduce both yield losses and quality degradation, while insecticides reduce quality damage. Quality accounts for substantial shares of profit‐maximizing insecticide and fungicide use. Use of both insecticides and fungicides appears excessive, while the potential for substitution between mechanical and chemical disease control appears large. A Cobb‐Douglas specification of the quantity production function gives substantially larger estimates of fungicide productivity than the damage control specification.
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Claims 7
Claim · model-written summary
Fungicides reduced both yield losses and quality degradation in North Carolina apple production.
- Taxon
- apple
Malus domesticae0 - Treatment
- fungicidese0
- Outcome
- yield losses and quality degradatione0
- Direction
- reducee0
- Setting
- North Carolinae0
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e0“Empirical analysis of pesticide use in North Carolina apple production using the damage control approach shows that fungicides and pruning reduce both yield losses and quality degradation, while insecticides reduce quality damage”
Claim · model-written summary
Pruning reduced both yield losses and quality degradation in North Carolina apple production.
- Taxon
- appleMalus domesticae0
- Treatment
- pruninge0
- Outcome
- yield losses and quality degradatione0
- Direction
- reducee0
- Setting
- North Carolinae0
Not reportedComparator
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e0“Empirical analysis of pesticide use in North Carolina apple production using the damage control approach shows that fungicides and pruning reduce both yield losses and quality degradation, while insecticides reduce quality damage”
Claim · model-written summary
Insecticides reduced quality damage in North Carolina apple production.
- Taxon
- appleMalus domesticae0
- Treatment
- insecticidese0
- Outcome
- quality damagee0
- Direction
- reducee0
- Setting
- North Carolinae0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Empirical analysis of pesticide use in North Carolina apple production using the damage control approach shows that fungicides and pruning reduce both yield losses and quality degradation, while insecticides reduce quality damage”
Claim · model-written summary
Quality accounts for substantial shares of profit-maximizing insecticide and fungicide use.
- Taxon
- appleMalus domesticae1
- Outcome
- substantial shares of profit‐maximizing insecticide and fungicide usee0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Quality accounts for substantial shares of profit‐maximizing insecticide and fungicide use”
e1“North Carolina apple production”
Claim · model-written summary
Use of both insecticides and fungicides appears excessive in apple production.
- Taxon
- appleMalus domesticae1
- Outcome
- Use of both insecticides and fungicides appears excessivee0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Use of both insecticides and fungicides appears excessive”
e1“North Carolina apple production”
Claim · model-written summary
The potential for substitution between mechanical and chemical disease control appears large in apple production.
- Taxon
- appleMalus domesticae1
- Outcome
- potential for substitution between mechanical and chemical disease controle0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“the potential for substitution between mechanical and chemical disease control appears large”
e1“North Carolina apple production”
Claim · model-written summary
A Cobb-Douglas specification of the production function gave substantially larger estimates of fungicide productivity than the damage control specification.
Verbatim
e0“gives substantially larger estimates of fungicide productivity than the damage control specification”
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