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Chinese Agricultural Science Bulletin ›› 2015, Vol. 31 ›› Issue (32): 284-290.doi: 10.11924/j.issn.1000-6850.casb15050189

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Influencing Factors and Countermeasures of Farmers’ Professionalization Willingness in Shanxi Province

Hou Xiangjuan, Shen Luling, Ren Hongyan   

  1. (Institute of Agricultural Resources and Economy, Shanxi Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Taiyuan 030006)
  • Received:2015-05-30 Revised:2015-09-30 Accepted:2015-08-25 Online:2015-11-16 Published:2015-11-16

Abstract: To promote farmers’ professionalization and speed up agricultural modernization with Chinese characteristics, this study focused on the influencing factors of the farmers’ professionalization willingness through rural household empirical survey. 86 household farmers from 15 towns in Shanxi Province were investigated based on questionnaire survey. Using SPSS 17.0 software, Logistic regression analysis was performed with the obtained data to study the willingness of the farmers’ professionalization and its influencing factors. The results showed that 76% of the sampled farmers had professional willingness. In addition, five variables including satisfaction degree about agricultural subsidy policy, cultivated area, family net income, agricultural income proportion and part-time farmer, significantly influenced the willingness of farmers’ professionalization. However, other seven factors including age, gender, education level, village cadres, skill training, land circulation and labor number, did not show significant impact. According to the above results, some suggestions were proposed to promote the development of the farmers’ professionalization in a healthy and ordered manner in Shanxi Province, including strengthening agricultural support policies, innovating professional farmers training model, setting up a system for smoothly circulating cultivated land, and improving agricultural production condition.

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