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Chinese Agricultural Science Bulletin ›› 2018, Vol. 34 ›› Issue (34): 82-90.doi: 10.11924/j.issn.1000-6850.casb17110134

Special Issue: 资源与环境 园艺 农业生态

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Ecological Compensation Standard for Agricultural Products and Farmers ’Willingness to Accept in Water Conservation Area: A Case Study on Kiwifruit Production in Xixia County.

  

  • Received:2017-11-30 Revised:2018-11-15 Accepted:2018-05-25 Online:2018-12-16 Published:2018-12-16

Abstract: Green production plays a key role in maintaining ecological safety of ecologically sensitive areas. This study established a synthetic index system of ecological compensation standard by calculating the evaluation of ecosystem service values, environmental cost and extra cost based on the ecological, economic, environmental and social dimensions. This paper calculated the compensation standard of conventional and ecological kiwifruit in water conservation area of South-to-North Water Diversion Project in 2015. A face to face questionnaire’s investigation of the willingness to accept (WTA) was conducted focused on the ecological compensation of kiwifruit planting with option of half of both fertilizer and pesticide and option of zero fertilizer and zero pesticide. Then comparing the compensation standard values with the WTA values by contingent value method, the results showed that the WTA value with fewer fertilizers and fewer pesticides was 16524 yuan/(hm2·a), which is much smaller than the compensation standard value 24105.5 yuan/(hm2·a), while the WTA value with zero fertilizer and pesticide was 28983.9 yuan/(hm2·a), which is higher than the compensation standard value. It is clear that the WTA expectation of farmers for organic planting pattern was much more than the green planting pattern. More financial and technical input should be considered to fulfill the conversion from conventional agriculture to organic agriculture.