Title :
Empirical Study on Farmers´ Behavior Change after Technical Training of Pesticide Use - Based on Farmers Investigation in Guangdong, Sichuan and Yunnan Provinces
Author :
Song, Wenting ; Fu, Xinhong ; Xiong, Deping ; Wang, Yan
Author_Institution :
Coll. of Econ. & Manage., Sichuan Agric. Univ., Ya´´an, China
Abstract :
To investigate farmers in Guangdong, Sichuan and Yunnan provinces randomly, the paper analyzes farmers´ behavior change after technical training. 57.21% farmers will turn safe technical knowledge into actual scientific behaviors; all specific behaviors have changes in different degree after training. Further, whether farmers´ behavior is changed that is as explained variable for logistic analysis. The results of SPSS show that different areas, safe technical knowledge, basis of pesticide purchase and some specific behaviors all have significant roles to farmers change behavior after training.
Keywords :
agriculture; agrochemicals; industrial training; statistical analysis; Guangdong; Sichuan; Yunnan; farmer behavior change; logistic analysis; pesticide use; technical training; Agricultural products; Environmental economics; Humans; Management training; Plants (biology); Pollution measurement; Product safety; Production; Protection; Water pollution;
Conference_Titel :
Management and Service Science, 2009. MASS '09. International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Wuhan
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4638-4
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4639-1
DOI :
10.1109/ICMSS.2009.5301270
