How channels of knowledge acquisition affect farmers’ adoption of green agricultural technologies: evidence from Hubei province, China

IF 3.3 2区农林科学 Q1 AGRICULTURE, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability Pub Date : 2023-11-01 DOI:10.1080/14735903.2023.2270254

Xuan Wang, Dušan Drabik, Junbiao Zhang

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Abstract

Farmers’ adoption of green agricultural technologies (GATs) could reduce the negative environmental impacts of traditional agriculture in China. Despite the benefits of GATs, their adoption rate has not been high. While previous studies have examined the information and communication technologies that influence the adoption of GATs, most have selected only one of the GATs and have not distinguished between public and private channels of knowledge acquisition. In this paper, based on a sample of 732 rural households from Hubei Province, we used a negative binomial model to examine the role of knowledge acquisition channels on GATs adoption. Overall, we found that radio and the government (through its face-to-face channels) are positively associated with farmers’ adoption of GATs; however, farmers adopted more GATs when they had acquired knowledge from the government than from radio. A possible explanation and a policy implication is that direct communication with farmers and practical demonstration of the benefits of GATs are preferred to passive reception of information.

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知识获取渠道如何影响农民采用绿色农业技术:来自湖北省的证据

在中国，农民采用绿色农业技术可以减少传统农业对环境的负面影响。尽管服务贸易总协定有好处，但其采用率并不高。虽然以前的研究审查了影响服务贸易总协定采用的信息和通信技术，但大多数研究只选择了服务贸易总协定中的一种，并且没有区分公共和私人获取知识的渠道。本文以湖北省732户农户为样本，采用负二项模型考察了知识获取渠道对服务贸易协定采用的影响。总体而言，我们发现电台和政府(通过其面对面渠道)与农民采用服务贸易协定呈正相关;然而，当农民从政府那里获得知识时，他们采用的服务贸易总协定比从广播中获得的知识要多。一个可能的解释和政策含义是，与被动接受信息相比，与农民直接沟通和实际展示服务贸易总协定的好处更为可取。

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International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability AGRICULTURE, MULTIDISCIPLINARY-GREEN & SUSTAINABLE SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

CiteScore

5.90

自引率

23.50%

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审稿时长

>12 weeks

期刊介绍： The International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability ( IJAS) is a cross-disciplinary, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to advancing the understanding of sustainability in agricultural and food systems. IJAS publishes both theoretical developments and critical appraisals of new evidence on what is not sustainable about current or past agricultural and food systems, as well as on transitions towards agricultural and rural sustainability at farm, community, regional, national and international levels, and through food supply chains. It is committed to clear and consistent use of language and logic, and the use of appropriate evidence to substantiate empirical statements. IJAS increases knowledge on what technologies and processes are contributing to agricultural sustainability, what policies, institutions and economic structures are preventing or promoting sustainability, and what relevant lessons should be learned.