Western Canadian producers' attitudes towards wheat breeding funding
Western Canadian producers' attitudes towards wheat breeding funding
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DOI：
10.1111/cjag.12252
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发表时间：
2020-06-04
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9
通讯作者：
Gray, Richard
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作者：
Galushko, Viktoriya;Cule, Monika;Gray, Richard
2017年，联邦政府启动了两项新作物特许权制度的全国磋商，这些制度可用于支持其他作物育种。在这项研究中，我们研究了小麦种植者对育种研究的态度，并评估他们通过核销或提高特许权使用费为小麦品种开发做出更多贡献的倾向。我们报告了 2018 年 11 月至 2019 年 1 月对加拿大西部 877 名小麦生产者进行的一项调查的随机效应概率估计。我们发现，至少 26% 的调查受访者愿意支付更多费用来支持额外的小麦育种。然而，这种支持取决于收入收集模式以及额外收入的投资方向。生产商普遍倾向于增加检查而不是增加版税征收。在提出的特许权使用费选项中，农场保存的种子特许权使用费机制比更容易实施的端点特许权使用费机制获得的支持较少。我们还发现，如果使用新的特许权使用费机制来支持大学或政府项目，而不是私人育种项目，那么支持率会高得多。这一结果表明，为加强特许权使用费征收而发展广泛的生产者支持可能需要对作物育种计划的资金、所有权和控制做出更广泛的承诺。
In 2017, the federal government initiated national consultations for two new crop royalty systems that could be used to support additional crop breeding. In this study, we examine wheat growers' attitudes towards breeding research and assess their inclination to contribute more to wheat variety development through checkoffs or enhanced royalties. We report a random effect probit estimation for a survey of 877 western Canadian wheat producers that took place from November 2018 to January 2019. We found at least 26% of survey respondents were willing to pay more to support additional wheat breeding. However, this support is contingent on the model for revenue collection and where additional revenue is invested. Producers generally favored increased checkoffs over enhanced royalty collection. Among the royalty options presented, the farm saved seed royalties mechanism had less support than the simpler to implement end-point royalties mechanism. We also found support is much higher if new royalty mechanisms are used to support university or government programs versus private breeding programs. This result suggests developing widespread producer support for enhanced royalty collection may require broader commitments for funding, ownership, and control of crop breeding programs.