The Study On Farmers’ Adoption Behavior Of IPM Technology And Incentive Mechanism

Since2003, with the CPC Central Committee issued a series of policies "strengthening agriculture, enriching farmers, benefiting farmers", Chinese grain output achieves steady growth in11years. However, with rapid development agriculture and urbanization, environmental capacity has reached the limit, the traditional agricultural production can’t continue. We must accelerate agricultural science and technology achievements transformation, and strengthen environment-friendly agricultural technology application to achieve sustainable development of agriculture.Farmers are the main body of adopting agricultural technology. Agricultural science and technology achievements which only to be accepted and adopted in agricultural production by farmers, can be transformed into real productivity. Therefore, the study of farmers’adopting IPM technology in major grain-producing areas has important theoretical and practical significance for achieving sustainable development of agriculture, which can help the government implement reasonable incentives to prompte farmers pay close attention to the twin goals of agricultural development and environmental protection.Based on farmers technology adoption and diffusion theory, this paper, taking farmers in Anhui province for the study object, discuss farmers’ adoption of IPM technology and its influencing factors, consider the effect of IPM technologies, build the incentives of IPM technology adoption in view of government subsidies and finally propose the policy recommendations. The main conclusions are summarized as following:(1)Conclusion can be obtained through the game analysis of farmers’ adopting IPM techniques, that promoting farmers to take product-safety, environment-friendly agricultural development path of modernization must reduce the cost of farmers’ adopting IPM techniques by technological innovation and building consumer markets of pollution-free agricultural products which can increase the price of pollution-free agricultural products because of high quality.(2) Along farmers’"cognitive→adopting willingness→adopting decision→adopting density " of IPM technology this complete dynamic process, this paper build the analysis framework of farmers’ adoption IPM technology behavior, establish econometric models, and discuss current situation of farmers’adopting IPM technology and factors of affecting farmers’ adopting IPM techniques in view of household survey data in Anhui Province, draw the conclusion:Farmer’ awareness of IPM technology is high, the willingness of adopting IPM technology is high too, however, this did not lead to high adoption behavior of IPM technology. Farmers’ protection awareness for agricultural ecological environment is not strong, and more emphasis on the production of short-term effects,"the environment external diseconomy" phenomenon is serious, the behavior of sustainable agricultural production is still missing.(3) Based on the survey data, we can find that although the adopting IPM technology will reduce the cost of spraying pesticides, but also it reduces food production, and farmers need pay more time and learning costs in the process of adopting IPM technology, which is the important reason that the adopting IPM technology is less in agricultural production practices, by using econometric model and empirical study of the effect of the farmers’ adopting IPM techniques.(4) Subject to asymmetric information, the government subsidies which is given to farmers for adopting IPM technology will lead to moral hazard and adverse selection behavior. The building of incentive mechanism to overcome moral hazard and adverse selection is effective, based on the theoretical framework of information economics.