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

fYear

2009

fDate

20-22 Sept. 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

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

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICMSS.2009.5301270

Filename

5301270