The Studies Of Incentive To Inducing The Farmers' Adoption Of Water Saving Irrigation Technology In Our Country

At first, the importance of adopting water saving irrigation technology is elaborated in this article. Started from analysis the supply and the demand of agriculture water saving irrigation technology in our country, the incentive mechanisms of promoting the farmers' adoption of agricultural water saving irrigation technology are constructed in this article. After the demonstration of the factors affecting the farmers' behavior of technology adoption, the related conclusion and advice are brought forward.By analyzing the supply and the demand of agriculture water saving irrigation technology in our country, we draw the conclusion that the supply and demand of agriculture water saving irrigation technology in our country are bidirectional insufficient. In the same time, the possible factors affecting the supply and demand of agriculture water saving irrigation technology are pointed out.In order to further study the behavior of the farmers when facing . the choice of adopting water saving irrigation technology, the author started the theoretical research by analyzing some main factors affecting the supply and demand of agriculture water saving irrigation technology. Based on such theories as natural resource economics, game theory, welfare economics, principal-agent theory of information economics and cost-benefit analysis etc., the incentive mechanisms are constructed from different perspective, which theoretically proved that government financial support, agricultural water price and water market are all very important factors promoting farmers' adopting water saving irrigation technology. Under certain institutional arrangement by the government, farmers' behavior of adopting water saving irrigation technology is incentive feasible.Based on the theoretical analysis, we collected abundant data by conducting an intention survey followed by a demonstration of the willingness to pay of the farmers for the adopting of water saving irrigation technology as well as the factors affecting technology adoption by using the Logit econometrics model. Apart from some household and agricultural characteristic, the findings indicates that the government fund support, agricultural water price and trading possibility of saved water also have great relevance to technology adoption of agricultural water saving irrigation.The bidirectional insufficiency of the supply and demand of water saving irrigation technology objectively requires the government to increase finance support to the cause of water saving irrigation and to subsidize farmers' technology adoption behavior. The agricultural water price is too low in our country for a very long period of time, which can not well reflect the scarcity and value of agricultural water resource. Therefore, it is high necessary to increase agricultural water price gradually as well as change the subsiding method transferred from hidden subsidy to clear subsidy. As we can conclude from the demonstration, the government should give the farmers the permission to transact water freely after the initial water rights allocation. By selling out the extra water, the farmers can receive some proceeds, which can promote their technology adoption behavior accordingly. In addition, the promotion of water saving irrigation information is very important to the technology adoption, so it is high necessary to set up the system of technology promotion and service.The main characteristics of this article are as followings: (1) new angle of study. We study the decision -making behaviors of the microcosmic farmers from the angle of adopting water saving irrigation. By using the investigation method of willingness to pay, we break through the limitation of not well developed water right market to the study of incentive mechanism of promoting technology adoption. (2) New research method. In combined with several theories, after constructing the incentive mechanism models from different perspective, we conducted a demonstration using first hand data, which perfectly combined theory with demonstration.