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Economic costs and returns from crop development research: the case of rapeseed breeding in Canada

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In this paper, the authors evaluated the distribution of the return between consumers and producers and found that consumers captured 53 percent and producers 47 percent of the total net benefits, while the public and private investment in research and development are an important source of economic growth.
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Public and private investment in Research and Development are an important source of economic growth. This article documents the high rate of return to society from investment in agricultural research. The analysis took the form of estimating the gains in producer and consumer surplus from research that improved rapeseed yield in western Canada and related these gains to research expenditures by calculating an internal rate of return. The distribution of the return between consumers and producers were estimated. The internal rate of return was found to be 101 percent and indicates an underinvestment in this type of research. Of the total net benefits, consumers captured 53 percent and producers 47 percent. L'argent public et prive investi dans la recherche et le developpement est une source importante de croissance economique. Le present article fournit une documentation sur le taux elve des profits que rapportent a la societe les investissements dans la recherche en agriculture. Notre analyse a pris la forme d'une estimation des gains en surplus realises par le producteur et le consommateur, a la suite de recherches ameliorant le rendement de la semence du colza dans l'ouest canadien, puis nous avons etabli un rapport entre ces gains et les depenses pour la recherche en calculant un taux de profits internes. Nous avons evalue la repartition des profits entre consommateurs et producteurs. Le taux des profits internes s'est avereetre de 101 pour cent, et cela signifie un sous-investissement dans ce type de recherche. Les consommateurs ont realise 53 pour cent du total des beneficies nets, alors que les producteurs en ont recupere 47 pour cent. 1928 ems

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors estimate the realized social rate of return on hybrid-corn research, one of the outstanding technological successes of the century, subject to a wide margin of error.
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Efficiency and Equity in Public Research: Rice Breeding in Japan's Economic Development

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that the extremely high rate of returns to rice research in Japan provides evidence that an underinvestment in agricultural research is typical, and that public support is required in order to attain a socially optimum level of investment in research.
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Return to Poultry Research in the United States

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