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- Title
VEGETABLE FARMERS' USE INTENTION TOWARDS BIOPESTICIDES AND ITS INFLUENCING FACTORS: BASED ON THE SURVEY IN JIANGSU PROVINCE, CHINA.
- Authors
Ruixin Liu; Bing Hou; Ping Sun; Hua Li; Jianhua Wang
- Abstract
To understand the vegetable farmers' use intention towards biopesticides and its influencing factors, a survey was conducted in Nanjing, Yangzhou, and Xuzhou city, Jiangsu province, China. Penalized logistic regression model was used to analyze. The results showed that the vegetable farmers had low cognitive level of biopesticides, and 68.63% of them would like to use biopesticides if they vary little with chemical pesticides on controlling effect. The farmers with higher education level, higher cognitive level of chemical pesticide residues or biopesticides, smaller vegetable planting area, or vegetable planting years less than 10, as well as under 40 years old, were more willing to use biopesticides. Meanwhile, biopesticide price, government supervision of pesticides, and skill training on biopesticide use significantly influenced the use intention towards biopesticides. Therefore, some suggestions were made, such as developing those biopesticides that take effect promptly and are easy to use, training farmers on biopesticide use and subsidizing those farmers who use biopesticides.
- Subjects
JIANGSU Sheng (China); CHINA; BIOPESTICIDES; FARMERS; VEGETABLE farming; LOGISTIC regression analysis
- Publication
Carpathian Journal of Food Science & Technology, 2016, Vol 8, Issue 1, p14
- ISSN
2066-6845
- Publication type
Article