Jikun Huang

TL;DR: The expansion of this cost-saving technology is increasing the supply of cotton and pushing down the price, but prices are still sufficiently high for adopters of Bt cotton to make substantial gains in net income.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used a unique three-period panel data set of high-resolution satellite imagery data and socioeconomic data for entire area of coterminous China to understand the extent of and the factors driving urban expansion in China from the late 1980s to 2000.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper evaluated the impact of urbanization and different urbanization modes on cultivated land changes using an econometric model that incorporates socioeconomic and policy factors in the eastern China, which experienced the great urbanization in recent years.

TL;DR: A survey of agricultural producers in China demonstrates that Bacillus thuringiensiscotton adoption increases production efficiency and improves farmer health.

TL;DR: Farm surveys of randomly selected farm households that are cultivating the insect-resistant GM rice varieties demonstrate that when compared with households cultivating non-GM rice, small and poor farm households benefit from adopting GM rice by both higher crop yields and reduced use of pesticides, which also contribute to improved health.