The Economic Analysis of GM Crops Impacts on Taiwan''s Agriculture

• Main Authors: Chia-Hsuan Wu, 吳佳勳
• Other Authors: Ching-Cheng Chang
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2003
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/24647653031445867469

博士 === 國立臺灣大學 === 農業經濟學研究所 === 91 === The development of agricultural biotechnology offers the opportunity to increase crop production, lower farming costs, improve food quality and could be reducing costs to consumers. Although until now Taiwan haven’t commercialize any GM foods, but Taiwan used to highly dependent on importing lots of grain products from world market, and the import quantity as well as price will be affected through world market as the production technology of GM crops is adopted. When the GM crops were imported to Taiwan, as suppliers of inputs and buyers agricultural products, other sectors will also be affected by the use of genetic engineering crops through vertical (or backward) and horizontal (or forward) linkages. This paper offers a preliminary quantitative assessment of the economic impacts of Taiwan importing GM crops on agricultural sector. For this purpose, a multi-sectoral computable general equilibrium model is used, named ORANI model. This model is amended by splitting the corn and soybeans into GM and non-GM varieties, and endogenizes the decision of producers and consumers to use GM vs. non-GM corn and soybeans in their intermediate use and consumption, respectively. In this paper we concern about the different GMO policies, including mandatory traceable labeling policy, consumers’ acceptance of GM food product and its implication. We also assume that if Taiwan adopt import ban on GM soybeans and GM corn, the result shows that it would be much great affect to Taiwan’s economics.