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Potential Economic Benefit and Producers’ Willingness to Adopt Btb Rinjal in Bangladesh: an Ex-ante Analysis

Md. Abdullah Al Mamun
Foreign Trade and Processing Division, Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Mohammad Jahangir Alam
Department of Agribusiness and Marketing, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh-2202, Bangladesh

Abstract/ Executive Summary:

Introduction of genetic engineering in agriculture is a recent idea of native scientists. Scientists from Bangladesh Agriculture Research Institute (BARI) are working on developing an FSB resistant brinjal variety namely Bt-brinjal in collaboration with Cornel University, USA. In addition, this study was attempted to find out the potential economic benefit and producers? willingness to adopt Bt-brinjal. A total of 80 respondents were randomly selected from Gazipur and Jamalpur districts. Descriptive statistics and Logistic regression analysis were used to analyze data. Yield gain and reduction in insecticide use data give the result as Bt-brinjal will increase yield by 65.76 percent and 44.87 percent and reduce pesticide cost by 71 percent and 70.36 percent compared to local OPV and Hybrid brinjal respectively. 98 percent of farmers will produce Bt-brinjal if they reduce insecticide use but 65 percent will not produce it if there are any health-related issues. Mass advertisement is also a significant factor of adoption (63.75 percent). It was found that the marketing channel for Bt and non-Bt brinjal is same. For this producers? adoption of Bt-brinjal is related to the potential benefit and harmlessness of the technology. Results also showed that adoption is significantly influenced by education, own land size, no. of spray per season, season of growing brinjal (p<.01) and household size, type of growing brinjal (p<.05) respectively. Though voice against GM crops was also very loud but the Bangladesh government is very much eager to introduce this technology to the market and give the benefits to its consumers.

Keywords: Bt-brinjal, Potential economic benefit, Adoption, Bangladesh.

Location: Gazipur and Jamalpur districts

Start Date: 00-06-2015

End Date: 00-08-2015

Program Area: Socio-economic and Policy

Non-commodity: Adoption of technology, Profit

Objectives:

The main objective of this study was to find out the producers? willingness to adopt Bt-brinjal. However, the specific objectives of this study were: (i) to estimate the potential benefits of Bt brinjal in terms of yield gain and reduction in insecticide use (ii) to identify producers? willingness to adopt Bt brinjal in Bangladesh and (iii) to identify the factors affecting adoption of Bt brinjal in Bangladesh.

Methodology:

The study was conducted in two districts of Bangladesh namely Gazipur and Jamalpur. A total of 80 respondents (10 adopters of field trials and 70 non-adopter of Bt-Brinjal) were selected from Gazipur and Jamalpur districts by using simple random sampling method. Data were collected during June and August, 2015 by interview through structured questionnaire. STATA software was used for statistical analysis. In addition to the field surveys with the brinjal producers, the study conducted expert interviews, and media contents surveys to identify the different controversies such as health, environmental, social and consumers' attitudes related to Bt-brinjal and finally major marketing channel in the study areas. Logistic Regression Analysis Logistic regression measures the relationship between a dependent variable and one or more independent variables, which are usually continuous. Binary logistic regression deals with such situations where the observed outcome for a dependent variable can be of two possible types. That is, the dependent variable can take the value 1 with a probability of success', or the value 0 with probability of failure 1-?. Frequently "logistic regression" is used in the situation of binary variables i.e., the number of available categories is two.

Source of Information: International Journal of Sustainable Agricultural Research 2019 Vol. 6, No. 3, pp. 137-149 ISSN(e): 2312-6477 ISSN(p): 2313-0393

Article Link (Online Journal): DOI: 10.18488/journal.70.2019.63.137.149

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Achievement/Findings:

Since Green revolution was accepted and producers enjoyed its benefit. As a result, the government Bangladesh is very much interested to introduce new technology in agricultural sector. Different government and nongovernment organizations are working in this regard. Introduction of GM crops is a recent idea of government. Btbrinjal is introduced to the producers by limited field trials and GM Rice is in the pipe line. To combat the problem of FSB damage to brinjal, Bangladesh government give the permission for field trial of Bt-brinjal earlier this decade with following proper process and honoring national bio-safety rules. BARI is the main organization for research, field trials and technology dissemination of Bt-brinjal.The study revealed that the producers? willingness to adopt Bt-brinjal is significantly influenced by education, own land size, household size, number of spray per season, season of growing brinjal and type of growing brinjal. They also influenced by information provided through different media. This result is variable in respect to country's demographic condition. The insignificant variables may be found significant in other country situation. This type of research is not available in Bangladesh. So the researcher was not able to compare this result with others. Though voice against GM crops was also very loud but Bangladesh government is very much eager to introduce this technology to the market and give the benefits to its consumers. Again they are very much conscious about public health and environment. Protests from different stakeholders are also a great concern. Even Bangladesh may lose its export market access to the countries that are not willing to import from the countries producing GM crops. So, further study would be helpful to reach a firm conclusion.

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