Influence Of Environmental Regulations On The Resource Utilization Behavior Of Livestock And Poultry Waste By Farmers In Xinjiang

Since the reform and opening up,the livestock and poultry farming sectors have grown quickly thanks to social demand,policy advancement,and policy promotion.On the one hand,this not only meets consumer demand but also helps the rural economy grow.Nevertheless,on the flip side,the amount of manure produced annually is also significantly increasing as a result of the farming industry’s quick expansion,which has negatively impacted the rural ecological environment.The green development of farming is currently significantly hampered by the outdated and poor utilization rate of livestock and poultry manure treatment.The central government’s top document for ten years running,from 2013 to 2022,dealt with how livestock and poultry use resources.Farmers are the primary focus of livestock and poultry production,indirect producers of animal and bird waste,and resource decision-makers for the use of livestock and poultry manure.Environmental rules are the most effective way for the government to interfere with how farmers use resources like livestock and poultry dung,and they are crucial in the management of these waste products.These legislative tools have significantly advanced China’s resource exploitation of agricultural waste.This thesis analyzes the impact of multidimensional environmental regulations on farmers’ livestock and poultry waste resource utilization behavior by using the Probit model based on 655 questionnaires on farmers’ farming situations in Xinjiang.Based on the theories of farmers’ behavior,externality theory,public goods theory,and agricultural sustainable development theory,this thesis also portrays farmers’ perceptions of environmental regulations in three dimensions: constraint-ba This essay expands on the research and suggests solutions to the pollution caused by livestock and poultry manure.The following are the thesis’ s conclusions:(1)Farmers’ handling of livestock and poultry manure varies widely.For example,22.75% of farmers waste manure directly instead of using it as a resource,while 58.92% return it to the land and 18.49% and 9.49% of farmers choose to give or sell their manure,respectively.It can be seen that the utilization of manure resources still has a lot of room for improvement in the future.(2)Environmental regulation can promote the resource utilization behavior of livestock and poultry manure by farmers,but the effect of environmental regulation in different dimensions is different.Environmental regulations positively influence farmers’ livestock waste resource utilization behavior,among which incentive regulations and guidance regulations can promote waste resource utilization behavior,but restraint regulations are not significant,and the intensity of influence of guidance regulations(0.377)is greater than that of incentive regulations(0.230).(3)Social pressure perception and environmental perception play a mediating role in environmental regulations affecting farmers’ livestock waste resource utilization behavior.(4)Among the many control variables,farmers’ education level,party membership or not,and distance to town in terms of land operation area outperformed in promoting farmers’ participation in livestock and poultry farming manure resource utilization behavior.Finally,we provide corresponding countermeasures and suggestions for the construction of rural ecological civilization in Xinjiang based on the above research results.