Do cooperatives awarded high-quality farm products certification promote the farmer's adoption of sustainable pest control techniques?
The certification of farm products plays an important role in promoting the sustainable pest control,and it improves the quality and safety of farm products.Farmer cooperatives are the important organization for leading smallholder farmers to develop high-quality and efficient farming.A random selected sample of small-scale farmers in Shaanxi was investigated in 2022,the effect of farmer cooperatives'farm products certification on farmer's adoption of sustainable pest control was analyzed by using the Propensity Score Matching Method(PSM)and a mediating effect model.The results are listed as following.Firstly,farmer cooperatives'agro-product certification can promote farmers'adoption of sustainable pest control,the improvement effect reaches 30.8％.Secondly,the different services provided by cooperatives awarded high-quality farm products certifica-tion have different effects on farmer's adoption of sustainable pest control.The services of unified purchase of sustainable pest control materials,training of sustainable pest control techniques,and unified selling of certified farm products increase the probability of farmers adopting the sustainable pest control by 27.0％,25.5％and 20.2％,respectively.Thirdly,there are three paths for farmer cooperatives awarded high-quality farm products certification to promote farmer's adoption of sustainable pest control:price premium incentives,quality regulation and cost control.Therefore,we suggest that cooperatives should actively apply for farm product certification,provide diversified services of sustainable pest control,and perfect the order contract between farmers and certified cooperatives to promote the sustainable pest control.
farmer cooperativesagro-product certificationsustainable pest controlorder contract
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