How do rural households accept straw returning in Northeast China?

Wang, Yi Jia; Wang, Naihui; Huang, George Q.

doi:10.1016/j.resconrec.2022.106287

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“…Government promotion is a strong determinant of households' technology adoption (Goyal and Netessine, 2007), and it is also one of the main channels for households to obtain technology information. Governments usually take measures such as subsidies for technology adoption (Chaves and Riley, 2001), training (Wang et al, 2009), setting up demonstration areas or households (Goyal and Netessine, 2007), and punishment (Wang et al, 2022) to intervene in the adoption of new technologies by households. Government subsidies significantly increased the probability of straw returning technology adoption in this study.…”

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“…Crop straw has served as a basic but important energy resource for living in rural areas worldwide for a long time, especially in developing countries (Gupta, 2014;Zeng et al, 2019;Wang et al, 2022). With the improvement of rural infrastructure and living environment, as well as the widespread use of natural gas in the recent decade, the importance of crop straw as the main fuel in rural areas gradually declined (Liu et al, 2019;Lopes et al, 2020).…”

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The impact of uncertainty on farmers’ adoption of straw returning technology in Northwest China

Yan

2023

Front. Environ. Sci.

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Straw returning technology has the potential to not only enhance the crop’s nitrogen yield but also protect the ecological environment and enhance crop yield. This paper explores the impact of uncertainty on rural households’ adoption of straw returning technology using an experimental method based on 703 wheat planting households in the Loess Plateau, China. The results show that 1) most farmers are inclined to risk aversion, and farmers generally have the characteristics of ambiguity aversion. 2) Risk preference and ambiguity preference obviously and negatively impact the possibility of adopting straw returning technology, and when the farmer’s risk preference and ambiguity preference increase by 0.1 units, the probability of adopting straw returning technology will decrease by 19.4% and 17.1%, respectively. 3) When we take the risk preference and ambiguity preference together into account, risk preference has sufficiently large effects on farmers’ decision on adopting straw returning technology relative to ambiguity preference. Overall, this research provides a micro-foundation and policy recommendations for farmers’ straw returning technology promotion in rural China and sheds light upon how the government can formulate relevant policies to promote green environmental development.

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The impact of uncertainty on farmers’ adoption of straw returning technology in Northwest China

Yan

2023

Front. Environ. Sci.

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“…The advantage of SEM is that it can deal with multiple explanatory variables and explained variables together, and can measure the logical relationship between latent variables and observable variables ( Bagheri et al, 2019a ). Previous studies have shown that SEM has been widely used in the field of social science, and it is reliable and effective in explaining and predicting farmers’ technology adoption behavior ( Lou et al, 2021 ; Wang et al, 2022 ). As long as SEM can continuously meet the requirements of scholars, it will continue to flourish ( Hershberger, 2003 ).…”

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“…Farmers are the ultimate executors and direct beneficiaries of straw returning technology, and the widespread application of straw returning technology largely depends on farmers’ acceptance of the technology. Therefore, it is of great significance to explore the decision-making mechanism of farmers’ adoption of straw returning technology to improve the application level of straw returning to the field ( Wang et al, 2022 ). Numerous studies have found that economic factors have an important impact on farmers’ adoption behavior of straw returning technology.…”

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Driving mechanism of subjective cognition on farmers’ adoption behavior of straw returning technology: Evidence from rice and wheat producing provinces in China

Ren

Zhong

2022

Front. Psychol.

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Straw burning is one of the important causes of environmental pollution in rural China. As an important green production technology, straw returning is beneficial to the improvement of rural environment and the sustainable development of agriculture. Based on the improved planned behavior theory, taking the survey data of 788 farmers in Shandong, Henan, Hubei, and Hunan provinces as samples, this paper uses a multi-group structural equation model to explore the driving mechanism of subjective cognition on the adoption behavior of farmers’ straw returning technology. The results show that behavioral attitude, subjective norm, and perceived behavioral control, which represent subjective cognition, all have significant driving effects on farmers’ intention to adopt straw returning technology. Behavioral intention plays a mediating role in the process of subjective cognition driving farmers’ adoption behavior of straw returning technology. Government support has a moderating role in the path from farmers’ behavioral intention to behavioral response. The subjective cognition of different types of farmers has a significant driving effect on the adoption intention of straw returning technology, but the driving strength weakens with the increase of the degree of farmers’ concurrent occupation. This study provides guidance for improving the government’s straw returning policy and regulating straw returning behavior.

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“…Therefore, the driving factors of straw-returning behavior have been studied extensively. However, the existing studies mostly focus on the socioeconomic characteristics of individual households [18], land-use status [19], cost and benefit [20,21], and environmental regulation [22,23] on farmers' straw-returning behavior. As an important factor affecting farmers' straw-returning behavior, labor aging is often included in the model as a control variable [7].…”

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Does Labor Aging Inhibit Farmers’ Straw-Returning Behavior? Evidence from Rural Rice Farmers in Southwest China

Zhou,

Yang,

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As a typical green production technology, straw return affects environmental pollution control and waste recycling. However, in reality, farmers are not active in returning straw to the field. This study constructed a theoretical analysis of farmers’ straw-returning behavior under the conditions of labor aging, socialization service, and environmental regulation. Based on the survey data from 540 households in the Province of Sichuan, we empirically study the relationship between labor aging and farmers’ straw-returning behavior by using the binary logistic regression model and explore the moderating effects of socialization service and environmental regulation on labor aging and straw-returning behavior. The results show that: (1) Aging laborers in rural households constitute a higher proportion, accounting for 29% of the rural household labor force. However, there is limited enthusiasm among farmers to adopt straw returning to the field, with only 65% of farmers adopting this technology. (2) The labor aging hinders farmers’ straw-returning behavior. Specifically, under other fixed conditions, the behavior of straw returning decreases by 0.647 units when the labor aging increases by one unit. (3) Socialization services and economic incentives can mitigate the adverse effects of labor aging on straw-returning behavior, while mandatory constraints do not. (4) The heterogeneity analysis shows that labor aging has a stronger inhibitory effect on straw-returning behavior when the land scale of farmers is lower than the average level and the area is not plain.

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How do rural households accept straw returning in Northeast China?

Cited by 22 publications

References 56 publications

The impact of uncertainty on farmers’ adoption of straw returning technology in Northwest China

The impact of uncertainty on farmers’ adoption of straw returning technology in Northwest China

Driving mechanism of subjective cognition on farmers’ adoption behavior of straw returning technology: Evidence from rice and wheat producing provinces in China

Does Labor Aging Inhibit Farmers’ Straw-Returning Behavior? Evidence from Rural Rice Farmers in Southwest China

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