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kcal, saving 56 percent. This producton technique also required 27 percent 

 fewer kilograms of active ingredients from insecticides and herbicides. Eco- 

 nomic evaluation indicated a potential savings in costs per kg of lint of A3 

 percent, from $1.04 per kg production cost under the typical Frio County pro- 

 duction technique to $0,593 per kg using the narrow-row, short-season pest 

 management technique. Overall, it appears that this new production system 

 is in harmony with environmental and energy use goals, while also being very 

 attractive to the individual producer. Producer acceptance of the new inte- 

 grated production system is most encouraging as it is used on an increasingly 

 larger number of acres each year. 



490. , and Taylor, R. C. 1978. Economic implications of alternative boll 

 weevil control strategies. In Boll Weevil: Management Strategies. South. 

 Coop. Ser. Bull. 228: 104-125. 

 Beltwide boll-weevil-control alternatives are being developed and proposed 

 to benefit farmers. This analysis strongly suggests that, in the aggregate, 

 farmers in their role as landowners are not beneficiaries of the programs. 

 Rather, landowners lose because land values fall. It is consumers and other 

 products that benefit, through lower prices. This general pattern has been 

 found for many new technologies that have been adopted by farmers. A net 

 positive social benefit provides reasonable justification for pursuing a 

 program. However, it leaves unanswered the question of equity between those 

 who incur a cost and those who benefit (at the producer and consumer levels). 

 These ramifications and the identification of actual beneficiaries and losers 

 have too long been ignored in large state and federal programs. This study 

 examined expected effects of three alternative boll-weevil-control programs. 

 The results suggest that eradication may not be the optimum boll-weevil-control 

 alternative for either society or the producer. The analysis indicates that 

 an alternative that would require some additional research but potentially 





