Survey of 1,046 Citrus Farmers in China on Pesticide Use and Conservation Practices

Liyuan Du's dataset from 2026 contains survey data from 1,046 citrus farmers in three major citrus-producing provinces of China. It is used to quantify pesticide overuse and examine its association with conservation biological control practices like windbreaks and cover crops. The analysis employs a Cobb–Douglas production function and a double-hurdle model.

Use Cases

• Modeling the relationship between conservation practices and pesticide application levels based on farm survey data.
• Analyzing the economic efficiency of pesticide use in perennial cash crops based on the described production function.
• Investigating the potential complementarity of integrated conservation practices like windbreaks and cover crops.
• Assessing regional patterns of pesticide overreliance in Chinese agriculture based on the three-province sample.

Strengths

• Dataset is based on a survey of 1,046 farmers, providing a substantial sample size.
• Analysis includes multiple robustness checks, including matched-sample estimation and a control function approach.
• The data is associated with a specific, peer-reviewed methodological approach described in the documentation.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• The 54.1 KB file size suggests a very limited scope, likely containing summary or supplementary data rather than the full raw survey.

Provenance

Source

Liyuan Du via figshare

Collection Method

Farm-level survey data collection.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-29 06:13:24; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Three major citrus-producing provinces in China.