Heterogeneous Preferences,Farmers Participatory Schemes Design and Livestock Manure Recycling:A Choice Experiment from Swine Farmers
The agricultural environmental program,which includes ecological compensation policies,exerts an incentive effect on the utilization of waste resources.However,the existing compensation policy framework may have reached a promotional bottleneck,and the key to overcoming this obstacle lies in understanding farmers'policy preferences.Using livestock manure recycled as fertilizer as a case study,an alternative policy scenario was developed using four policy attributes through a choice experiment method.The Mixed Logit model was applied to analyze the data from 346 swine farmers in Jiangsu Province,testing the preferences for compensation policies and their synergistic and complementary effects.The findings indicated that:(1)Farmers favored service,income,and price compensation policies in the experimental scheme,showing no clear preference for technical support compensation policies;(2)Farmers'environmental awareness and risk characteristics significantly influenced their policy preferences,with those having a higher risk preference and environmental awareness being more receptive to various compensation policies and schemes;(3)There was a significant complementarity between technical support and service outsourcing,and income and price compensation policies.Drawing on the principle of"promoting diversified compensation and enhancing positive synergistic effects",this study proposes a plan for the recycling of aquaculture waste to fields,aimed at optimizing and improving the current ecological compensation policy system to create a cohesive set of policies and measures.