Factors influencing farmers’ adoption of eco-friendly fertilization technology in grain production: An integrated spatial–econometric analysis in China

Qi, Xiaoxing; Liang, Fachao; Yuan, Wenhua; Tao, Zhigang; Li, Jianchun

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2021.127536

Cited by 45 publications

(25 citation statements)

References 27 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…Farmers' educational and cultural backgrounds may limit their understanding of pollution problems [43]. Age, education, farm size, and land fragmentation are the socioeconomic factors influencing farmers' adoption of eco-friendly fertilization technology [49]. Farmers' gender and age, perceived responsible party to address pollution, and willingness to reduce pollution show very low contributions to the variance of farmers' fertilization.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Modelling Fertilizer Use in Relation to Farmers’ Household Characteristics in Three Gorges Reservoir Area, China

Fleskens

et al. 2021

Agriculture

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Non-point source pollution from excessive use of fertilizers in agriculture is a major cause of the eutrophication problem in China. Understanding farmers’ decision-making concerning fertilization and identifying the influencing factors in this process are key to tackling overfertilization and related pollution issues. This paper reports a study on modelling decisions about fertilizer use based on data collected from 200 farmer households in the Three Gorges Reservoir area of China, using a well-fitted artificial neural network (ANN) with incorporated variance-based sensitivity analysis. The rate of fertilizer use estimated from the model is in good agreement with observed data. The model is further validated and tested by comparing the simulated and observed values. Results show that the model is able to identify the influencing factors and their interactions causing the variation in fertilizer use and to help pinpoint the underlying reasons. It is found that the farmers’ fertilization behavior is greatly affected by the area of cultivated land, followed by the interaction among farmers’ education level, annual income, and awareness of the importance of environmental protection. Future land consolidation is one of several ways to achieve more sustainable fertilization strategies.

show abstract

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Modelling Fertilizer Use in Relation to Farmers’ Household Characteristics in Three Gorges Reservoir Area, China

Fleskens

et al. 2021

Agriculture

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…The government, aiming to maximize the sustainable use of land resources and social welfare, tends to promote organic fertilizers with slow effect and low environmental impact to farmers. Rational farmers, aiming at increasing returns or reducing costs, focus more on short-term benefits and tend to use fast-acting chemical fertilizers, ignoring the agricultural surface pollution caused by over-application (Liu et al, 2019;Qi et al, 2021). Organic fertilizer is a labor-intensive production factor, characterized by slow fertilizer efficiency, large volume, and high dosage (Godfray and Garnett, 2014), and its application by farmers increases input costs and does not significantly improve agricultural yields (Jordan-Meille et al, 2012).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The current research on pro-environmental fertilizer application technology adoption behavior by scholars is mainly summarized into two views, one is that most of them use the planned behavior and its expansion model to analyze the influencing factors of farmers' technology adoption behavior, forming a research paradigm with endogenous factors such as farmers' individual characteristics, household characteristics, cognitive characteristics, and willingness to participate as the logical main line (Tey and Brindal, 2012;Daxini et al, 2018;Faruque-As-Sunny et al, 2018;Qi et al, 2021). Farmers' endowments such as the education level of decision makers, the number of household laborers, the degree of part-time employment and the scale of land operation all have significant effects on the adoption of pro-environmental fertilizer application technology (Onwezen et al, 2013).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Understanding farmers’ eco-friendly fertilization technology adoption behavior using an integrated S-O-R model: The case of soil testing and formulated fertilization technology in shaanxi, china

Dong

Wang

Han³

et al. 2022

Front. Environ. Sci.

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The rapid development of high-standard farmland construction has triggered explosion of farmland cultivated land protection technologies in recent years. Contemporary, eco-friendly fertilization technology (EFFT) are rapidly becoming main force to achieve food security and promote the national ecological strategy. Hence, based on the extended stimulus-organism-response (S-O-R) theoretical analysis framework, this empirical research 295 field interview data of farmers in the high standard farmland grain main production area in Shaanxi Province, a developing country context, to analyze the mechanism of external incentives on farmers’ eco-friendly fertilization technology adoption behavior, further tested to examine the mediating effect of intrinsic perception and moderating effect of the family endowment. We applied the methodological approach, partial least square structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM), to test the hypothetical model. The results show that external incentives can effectively improve farmers’ technology adoptive behavior; internal perception has a significant positive effect on adoptive behavior, and it plays an intermediary role between external incentives and eco-friendly fertilization technology adoption behavior; family endowment has a significant positive effect on farmers’ technology adoption behavior, but the moderating effect of family endowment in external incentive-technology adoption behavior relationship is not significant. Therefore, we should choose appropriate and flexible government regulations, and give full play to the role of premium incentives, so as to improve the motivation of farmers to adopt eco-friendly fertilization technology.

show abstract

“…Various studies have examined farmers' behaviors and attitudes under certain policies and explored the factors that influence farmers' decision-making behaviors [19][20][21]23,25]. The main factors that may influence farmers' behaviors can be divided in household head characteristics, household production characteristics, and technical characteristics [20,26,27]. On the issue of farmland soil pollution, Zhou et al [19] studied the spontaneous adaption behaviors of farmers in the mining area, such as abandoning farming and adjusting crops, and their results showed that a low level of adaptation perception for which technology was the most important limiting factor followed by money limited the adaptation behaviors of farmers; Yu et al [28] investigated farmers' comprehensive assessment of the policy of remediation during fallow, such as planting green manure and biological adsorption, and found that it was positively influenced by the cognition of government implementation, the cognition of policy function and the evaluation of value perception.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Willingness and Technology Preferences of Farmers and Their Influencing Factors for Soil Remediation

Yan

Wang

Yang

2022

Land

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Farmers are one of the major uncertainty factors in remediation of contamination farmland. Based on the face-to-face questionnaire survey data of 553 farmers in 4 heavy metal-contaminated agricultural soil remediation projects in China, this study used methods, such as structural equation modeling and random forest to explore farmers’ willingness to remediate, technology preference, and their key influencing factors for the first time. The results showed that farmers were willing to remediate contaminated soil and preferred phytoremediation, with 82.8% choosing phytoremediation, 12.5% choosing passivation, and 4.7% believing that the soil did not need to be remediated. In terms of willingness to remediate, the perceived benefits from participation in current remediation projects directly contributed to future willingness, with participation status (total impact coefficient 0.86) and perceived benefits (impact coefficient 0.49) being the main factors positively influencing farmers’ willingness. With regard to technology preference, technical characteristics (soil quality, 17.1%; secondary contamination, 16.8%; and remediation period, 11.5%) were the main influencing factors. The sustainability of passivation effect and the possible secondary contamination restrict the promotion of passivation, whereas the cessation of agricultural production during the long remediation period restricts the promotion of phytoremediation. It is recommended to increase farmers’ willingness to remediate by improving their perceived benefits and continuously overcoming the technical barriers by: (i) developing efficient and green passivators; and (ii) improving the efficiency of phytoremediation as well as intercropping or rotating cash crops while remediating. The results have important reference value for soil remediation in agricultural countries with small arable land per capita.

show abstract

Factors influencing farmers’ adoption of eco-friendly fertilization technology in grain production: An integrated spatial–econometric analysis in China

Cited by 45 publications

References 27 publications

Modelling Fertilizer Use in Relation to Farmers’ Household Characteristics in Three Gorges Reservoir Area, China

Modelling Fertilizer Use in Relation to Farmers’ Household Characteristics in Three Gorges Reservoir Area, China

Understanding farmers’ eco-friendly fertilization technology adoption behavior using an integrated S-O-R model: The case of soil testing and formulated fertilization technology in shaanxi, china

The Willingness and Technology Preferences of Farmers and Their Influencing Factors for Soil Remediation

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About