Social Capital,Crop Differences and Adoption of Alternative Technologies for Agrochemical Inputs:Based on the Survey Data of 942 Farmers in Shandong Province
The wide application of alternative technology for agrochemical inputs is an impor-tant driving force for China to orderly carry out the action of reducing agrochemical inputs.As the users of agricultural chemical input substitution technology,farmers'willingness to adopt directly affects the use of agricultural chemical input substitution technology.Based on the survey data of 942 farmers in 15 cities of Shandong Province and the order probit model,this paper studies the impact of social capital on farmers'willingness to adopt alternative technologies for agricultural chemical inputs in the face of different crops from the two levels of social capital among farmers and between farmers and governments.It is found that the social capital of two relationships has a positive and significant impact on improving the willingness of farmers to adopt alternative technol-ogies for agricultural chemical inputs,that is,the more sufficient the social capital is,the less likely the farmers are to hold the"completely unnecessary"and"replacement is not important",and the more likely they are to hold the"necessary,but not urgent"and"very necessary"willing-ness to adopt.After in-depth comparison by samples,it is found that social capital has a greater improvement on the adoption willingness of farmers who grow cash crops.In addition,education level,herd mentality and land quality will significantly improve farmers'willingness to adopt alter-native technologies for agricultural chemical inputs.From the perspective of impact path,social capital can affect farmers'willingness to adopt alternative technologies for agricultural chemical inputs by changing farmers'green cognition.Finally,according to the impact of different crops,this paper puts forward targeted suggestions,in order to provide reference for improving farmers'willingness to adopt alternative technologies for agricultural chemical inputs and promoting the re-duction of agricultural chemical inputs.
Multi-level social capitalAlternative technology of agrochemical inputsDifferent crop typesFarmer householdWillingness to adopt
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