Farmers' preferences for livestock pollution control policy in China: a choice experiment method

Pan, Dan; Zhou, Guzhen; Zhang, Ning; Li-guo, Zhang

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2016.04.133

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“…Whether used to evaluate customer preferences for electricity or food products [38][39][40][41][42][43][44], or contracts in the agricultural sector [44][45][46][47], or even conservation services and natural resources [48][49][50][51][52], the discrete choice approach has led to valuable insights into how decisions are made in the real world.…”

Section: Consumer Research and Discrete Choice Experimentsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Marketing Green Fertilizers: Insights into Consumer Preferences

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Abstract:In an effort to support the long-term viability of the bioenergy industry through an end market for digestate, we investigated purchasing preferences for fertilizer product features in the home gardening market. We conducted a discrete choice experiment (DCE), presenting 504 respondents with a total of 6048 product attribute choices in a simulated context that replicated the tradeoff decisions made in the real marketplace. We analyzed the choice data using a hierarchical Bayes estimate to generate part-worth utilities for fertilizer product attributes. We then conducted a latent class analysis to identify market segments that could be expected to respond to differentiated product design strategies. We were able to quantify both purchasing preferences for fertilizer product attributes as well as the importance of each attribute to the perceived utility of a product. We were further able to identify five distinct market segments that make clear the potential for differentiated strategies in the home gardening market. We found both negative and positive price sensitivities, with sociodemographically distinct subgroups that favored low-, mid-, and high-priced products. We also found purchasing preferences for brand status, product labeling and nutrient values. Our results provide insights that should help product managers in the biogas industry develop marketing strategies to integrate digestate into a sustainable energy production system.

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Section: Consumer Research and Discrete Choice Experimentsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Marketing Green Fertilizers: Insights into Consumer Preferences

Dahlin

Halbherr

Kurz³

et al. 2016

Sustainability

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“…In addition, some regulations, such as "Prevention and Treatment on Pollution from Livestock Cultivation", stated that farms must treat manure in a sustainable way. In some provinces, farmers will pay a pollution fee if they do not treat manure in a sustainable way; the level of pollution fees ranged from 30 RMB/head/year to 120 RMB/head/year in pig production [7].…”

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“…Despite these massive initiatives to encourage farmers to treat manure in a sustainable way, farmers' adoption rate of sustainable manure treatment technologies (SMTTs) remains low [7]. It is reported that 40% of manure in China is not effectively treated and utilized and over 20% of manure is being directly discarded into rivers or lands without appropriate processing [3].…”

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“…Most existing studies have treated farmers' adoption of SMTTs as separate decisions, focusing on the adoption of only one or two isolated types of SMTTs independently, such as returning to the field [2,9], producing biogas [10,11], composting [12], sale [7], and arbitrary discard [13]. Limited attention has been given to the adoption of multiple types of SMTTs.…”

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“…For example, Zheng et al [15] found that farmers often simultaneously adopt a bundle of SMTTs, and different SMTTs may be closely related, either as complements or as substitutes. Pan et al [7] also highlighted that the impact of SMTTs on manure pollution reduction depends on whether they are adopted independently or as a package. Hence, analyses without considering interdependence among different SMTTs may get biased estimates of the impact of various factors on the decision of SMTTs adopting.…”

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Adoption of Multiple Sustainable Manure Treatment Technologies by Pig Farmers in Rural China: A Case Study of Poyang Lake Region

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The adoption of sustainable manure treatment technologies (SMTTs) in livestock production helps to reduce agricultural contamination. As such, understanding what determines farmers’ adoption of SMTTs is an essential prerequisite for the administrative handling of livestock pollution. Applying a multivariate probit model on a cross-sectional data set of 686 pig farmers in Poyang Lake Region in China, this study discovered that two key factors influencing farmers’ decisions to adopt multiple SMTTs are off-farm labor and environmental awareness. In other words, households with a higher share of off-farm labor are less likely to adopt SMTTs. Farmers with higher environmental awareness are more likely to adopt SMTTs. The results also revealed that because of the inappropriateness of government subsidy and insufficient technical training, the impact of Chinese government subsidy on the adoption of biogas technology is negligible, but the subsidy on composting greatly helps to promote the adoption of composting technology. We also found a substitution effect and complementary effects between different SMTTs. These findings can improve policymakers’ understanding of farmers’ joint adoption decisions. It also helps policymakers to optimize subsidy strategies to encourage farmers’ adoption of SMTTs in rural China.

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Circular economy pattern of livestock manure management in Longyou, China

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Farmers' preferences for livestock pollution control policy in China: a choice experiment method

Cited by 46 publications

References 42 publications

Marketing Green Fertilizers: Insights into Consumer Preferences

Marketing Green Fertilizers: Insights into Consumer Preferences

Adoption of Multiple Sustainable Manure Treatment Technologies by Pig Farmers in Rural China: A Case Study of Poyang Lake Region

Circular economy pattern of livestock manure management in Longyou, China

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