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Chinese Agricultural Science Bulletin ›› 2009, Vol. 25 ›› Issue (23): 406-412.

Special Issue: 现代农业发展与乡村振兴

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Empirical Analysis of Influencing Factors of Technology Choice about Agriculture and Rural Energy-saving and Emission Reduction

  

  • Received:2009-07-20 Revised:2009-08-07 Online:2009-12-05 Published:2009-12-05

Abstract: Through the questionnaire survey about Bayi Village Yongan City and Yanxi Village Sha County of Fujian Province, the paper uses the logistics model to carry on the empirical analysis about the major factors of influencing peasant households to choose the “Top Ten” technology about agriculture and rural energy-saving and emission reduction from the Ministry of Agriculture. The results indicate that: Whether to obtain the government subsidy, the peasant household’attitude about the pollution controlling , the total land area of management and monthly consumption of the family energy and so on four factors have remarkable influence on the peasant households adopting biogas technology; The primary factor of affecting the peasant households to adopt the solar energy technology is the number of years of education of peasant households and the adopted technology whether to obtain the government subsidy; Whereas the peasant households whether to adopt the crop rotation technology is mainly influenced by the number of years of education, the total land area of management, the number of channels to gain agriculture information, whether to participate in the agricultural technology department's instruction and training, whether to satisfy with Agriculture department's service and so on. Based on the above the paper proposes that the promotion of energy-saving and emission reduction technologies should adopt government-led, stepping up publicity efforts to improve peasant household’quality and advocating appropriate scale of operation and other related policy recommendations.