Abstract:

This paper based on the survey data of the farmers of plant hybrid millet, using logit model, the affecting factors for the willingness of farmers to adopt hybrid millet technology were analyzed. The results showed that degree of education, increasing yield of hybrid millet, output, the labor force inpopulation of family and employment significantly positively affect farmers’ willingness. However, age and the main earners had a significant negative effect on farmers’ willingness. Hybrid millet should be introduced to households with high degree of education, high proportion of crop to gross household income and high degree of education. Last, the paper proposed suggestion from production subsidy, strengthen scientific research and training to develop Hybrid millet.