The Analysis Of Factors Influencing Farmers’ Fertilizer Application Behavior In The Surrounding Areas Of Chaohu

Our country is faced with the densely populated basic national condition, increased food production has the vital significance to our country. Fertilizer, as one of the inputs in agricultural production, the crop yield has been greatly improved since it was introduced into our country, but in recent years, obvious changes have taken place in the structure and the way of chemical fertilizer, farmers use chemical fertilizer intensity more and more every year. Although fertilizer bring great contribution to increase crop yield, but the accompanying negative environmental externalities appeared out gradually, which caused the agricultural non-point source pollution that is wide range and difficult to control. With the increasing amount of chemical fertilizer, the large load of soil-. soil acidification and hardening are getting serious, a large number of chemical elements which is applied to the soil, such as nitrogen, phosphorus, greatly exceed the absorption capacity of soil, chemical elements which cannot be absorbed will flow into the lake with rain water, surface water, will cause a high degree of eutrophication. The lake of Chaohu is the typical entrophicated water polluted by agricultural non-point source pollution, unreasonable fertilization of farmers in the surrounding areas of Chaohu is an important factor to cause the agricultural non-point source pollution.In order to reduce the agricultural non-point source pollution of the lake of Chaohu caused by the unreasonable application of chemical fertilizer, it’s necessary to treat when contamination is found, but to take prevention measures is more important, to guide farmers to improve fertilizer structure and control the amount of fertilizer. Farmers are the main body of fertilization behavior, so it is very important to study the fertilization behavior of farmers in the areas around Chaohu. The object is the survey data of farmers in the areas around of Chaohu in this study, through the analysis of the data of farmers’ individual characteristics, cognitive characteristics, farmers’ household management characteristics, and the present situation of government support. Through the establishment of Logit model, making an empirical analysis on that whether the farmers have the willingness of reducing fertilizer and whether the amount of chemical fertilizer has increased respectively in recent three years. The result is that farmers’ level of education、 farmers’ agricultural production experienced level and the recognition which farmers considered pollution have a significant positive effect on the willingness of reducing fertilizer; farmers who are satisfied with the surrounding environment, household labor force, farmers participated in the local agricultural cooperative organizations have a significant negative impact in the amount of chemical fertilizer increased. Farmers who understand the situation nutrient of their land, farmers who believe that agricultural production will contaminate the environment and farmers who pay more attention to cultivation cost of input when engaged in agricultural production activities have a significant positive effect on the increase of fertilizer application.In order to make further exploratory research, this paper compared the empirical results of areas around Chaohu with other regional research results from the individual characteristics of farmers, farmers’ cognitive characteristics, household management characteristics、the present situation of government support and regional location features. Finally, find and get the reasons of the differences and take good measures to improve the behavior of the local farmers’ fertilization..