Does Social Learning Promote Farmers’ Cooperative Pest Control?—Evidence from Northwestern China

Agriculture, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 14(10), С. 1749 - 1749

Опубликована: Окт. 4, 2024

Pest management is pivotal for ensuring secure grain production and constitutes a fundamental strategy in combating pests that detrimentally affect supplies. Given the complexity dynamic nature of pests, it imperative farmers implement coordinated prevention control strategies. Such measures are essential to augment efficacy these efforts reduce risks posed by agricultural crops. This research involved survey 1205 households spanning three representative provinces Northwestern China. By employing an endogenous switching Probit model addressing sample selection bias, study investigates influence social learning on adoption cooperative pest strategies farmers. The findings indicate significantly enhances farmers’ measures. In counterfactual scenario, introducing previously unexposed would result 10.3% increase likelihood adopting practices. Additionally, factors such as health status household head, income level, size land under critical determinants participation learning. differential access scientific, accurate, systematic information, coupled with resource disparities among farmers, can partially account varying average treatment effects observed different methods propensity adopt Furthermore, plays crucial role fostering establishing trust facilitating consensus decision-making, enhancing dissemination information.

Язык: Английский

Does Participation in Digital Supply and Marketing Promote Smallholder Farmers’ Adoption of Green Agricultural Production Technologies?

Land, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 14(1), С. 54 - 54

Опубликована: Дек. 30, 2024

As global environmental challenges intensify, promoting green agricultural production technologies (GAPTs) that balance ecological and economic benefits at the farmer level has become a crucial pathway to achieving sustainable development. To achieve this goal, study uses an Ordered Probit model, which empirically tests impact mechanisms of digital supply marketing (DSM) participation on farmers’ adoption GAPTs, based micro-survey 1272 farmers from Shaanxi Province, Gansu Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region in China. The findings reveal following: (1) Participation DSM effectively encourages adopt GAPTs. (2) Such enhances household per capita income, strengthens risk management, lowers entry barriers high-value markets, improves access information, thereby (3) Compared low-capital, high-labor, low-risk technologies, stronger incentivizing effect high-capital, low-labor, high-risk technologies. This offers novel empirical insights into It provides micro-level evidence supporting application agriculture safeguarding sustainability.

Язык: Английский

Assessing the Synergistic Effects of Digital Credit and Agricultural Insurance on Agricultural Sustainability

Опубликована: Янв. 1, 2024

Язык: Английский