Incentive mechanism for promoting farmers to plant green manure in China

Li, Fuduo; Ren, Jianke; Wimmer, Stefan; Yin, Changbin; Li, Zhongyi; Xu, Changxu

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.122197

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“…Second, guaranteeing the legality to land management rights of family farms who rent in arable land in order to reduce breaches of contract. Written land contract is a key to securing the land transactions to make land transfer transparent and protect legally, which can cut back potential land conflicts, and family farms will use CLPQIT in rented arable land with ease [36]. Comparatively, verbal land transfer agreement lacks authoritative land use rights and legal evidence, whose contractual relationship is not stable.…”

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“…Farmers' behavior is different visibly due to their diverse individual endowments and family characteristics [35]. Some studies showed that younger, better educated farmers with better finance status were more conscious to agricultural conservation and were more likely to adopt CLPQIT [12,36]. Policy cognition is also a relevant factor for farmers' CLPQIB.…”

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How Does the Stability of Land Management Right (SLMR) Affect Family Farms’ Cultivated Land Protection and Quality Improvement Behavior (CLPQIB) in China?

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Protecting and improving cultivated land quality is a key way to the realization of agricultural modernization. The Chinese government advocates agricultural producers to implement cultivated land protection and quality improvement behavior (CLPQIB). However, the cultivated land management rights of family farms are not so stable. In order to study how stability of land management rights (SLMR) affects family farms’ CLQPIB, promoting family farms in adopting technologies to protect cultivated land, this study investigated 117 family farms in Anhui and Hubei provinces by stratified sampling and analyzed data through the logistic regression model and marginal effects model. The results showed that transferred land ratio, contract types, and contract duration affected family farms’ CLPQIB significantly. The probability of family farms applying organic fertilizer decreased by 0.9% for every 1% increase of the transferred land ratio. Family farms’ rented land through formal contracts have a 21.4% higher probability of adopting planting–breeding technology than family farms’ rented land through informal contracts. For every additional year of the rental contract duration, the possibility for family farms to replace chemical fertilizer with organic fertilizer, pesticides reduction, and integrated planting-breeding increase by 2.1%, 2.2%, and 1.3%, respectively. The results of this study can guide policy makers with further regulating land transfer behavior, guide family farms with signing formal lease contracts, and extending the duration of lease contracts, improving the cultivated land protection behavior of family farms.

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How Does the Stability of Land Management Right (SLMR) Affect Family Farms’ Cultivated Land Protection and Quality Improvement Behavior (CLPQIB) in China?

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Yin

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“…Chemical fertilizer has gradually become the main source of nutrients for crop growth [2]. However, the advantages of green manure have rapidly become apparent due to the soil fertility decline, farmland nonpoint source pollution and soil acidification caused by the longterm application of chemical fertilizers, the introduction of ecological agriculture service projects [3], and the deepening understanding of green manure by the public in recent years. More importantly, under the guidance of "carbon peak" and "carbon neutral"…”

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Ecological and Environmental Benefits of Planting Green Manure in Paddy Fields

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Soil fertility management is one of the most important factors affecting crop production. The use of organic manures, including green manure, is an important strategy to maintain and/or improve soil fertility for sustainable crop production. Green manure generally refers to crops that can provide fertilizer sources for agricultural cash crops and improve soil productivity. The application of green manure is a traditional and valuable practice for agroecosystem management, particularly in paddy systems where green manure is rotated with rice. This paper systematically reviews the effects of green manure on soil microenvironments and greenhouse gas emissions, and the role of green manure in the phytoremediation of paddy fields. The paper concludes that green manure can not only affect soil nutrients and the microbial community, but also reduce greenhouse gas emissions and enhance soil remediation to some extent. Moreover, this review provides theoretical guidance on the selection of green manure germplasm and tillage methods for paddy fields of different climates and textures. However, this review only provides a macro-overview of the effects of green manure on soil nutrients, greenhouse gas emissions, and soil remediation in rice paddies based on a large number of previous studies, and does not provide a comprehensive quantitative assessment due to differences in green manure varieties and soil texture. The prospects for quantitative analysis of the ecological and economic effects of the sustainable development of green manure cultivation are discussed.

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“…Recently, many scientific projects have been funded to conduct CCs studies, and the Chinese central government launched the Green Manure Planting Program (GMPP) to reduce soil degradation and stabilize food production by taking advantage of eco-functions of green manure crops. So far, the number of farmers adopting the GMPP has increased over the years leading to a continuous expansion of the GMPP area (Li et al, 2020b). The adoption of CCs has been considered as one of the most effective agricultural diversification practices to promote Chinese sustainable agricultural development (Li et al, 2020b).…”

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“…So far, the number of farmers adopting the GMPP has increased over the years leading to a continuous expansion of the GMPP area (Li et al, 2020b). The adoption of CCs has been considered as one of the most effective agricultural diversification practices to promote Chinese sustainable agricultural development (Li et al, 2020b).…”

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confidence: 99%