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The Impact Of Initial Assets And Social Networks On Farmers' Choice Of Water-saving Irrigation Technology

Posted on:2018-04-10Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Q YangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2359330512499942Subject:Regional Economics
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The shortage of agricultural water supplying in northwest China region which is the extremely poor for water resources has become a major obstacle to the local agriculture with the rapid development of economy and society.Therefore,it is significant to promote and popularize water-saving irrigation technology in the western area.Based on the government's policy order,the existing technology promotion model ignores the farmers' willingness,resulting unexpected effect to the technical communication.It should be subject's intention as the main research object in the process of the new technology promotion.It will be of great significance to analyze the real reason that restricting the technology promotion to contribute to the upgrading of agricultural technology and alleviate the shortage of agricultural water.According to the theories of Factor Endowment and the Technology Diffusion,farmers' choice on the technical is determined by the amount of resources and the mastery of technical information.The past studies divide farmer's income,land,etc.as the individual characteristics of farmers instead of a separate asset factors.The initial asset is an important support for farmers' technological adoption.The construction and maintenance of new technology equipment requires the additional funds and costs,which will reduce famers' willingness to use device for water-saving irrigation.At the same time,the risk of new technology will leads famers who own fewer assets hesitating to make adjustments in the production mode and innovation.This study regards the social network as the second factor farmer technology.Social network is an important medium for information dissemination and diffusion,which allows farmers freely exchange and share relevant technical information contributing to improve their technical awareness and reduce the technology.Combined with theoretical analysis and empirical analysis,this study tests how the initial assets and social networks have the impact on farmers' choice on water-saving irrigation technology.The main contents are as follows: Chapter 1 includes introduction and background of the technology promotion.The following chapter explains the connotation of the initial assets and the social network,and separately measures them by method of factor analysis.Chapter 3 contains briefly introduction of the water-saving irrigation technology and the descriptive analysis of the survey data.The Chapter 4 makes an empirical study on the factors that will affect the willingness of farmers to use water-saving irrigation technology in several dimensions of initial assets and social networks by applying Binary Logistic model.Chapter 5 mainly focuses on the initial assets and social network interaction analysis.The final conclusions and recommendations based on the previous analysis will be given in the chapter 6.Through the empirical test and analysis,it could get results and conclude as follow: firstly,the initial assets and social networks have a positive impact on the farmers' choice on water-saving irrigation technology.Famers have more possibility to adopt Water-saving irrigation technology with higher asset level and the more rich the social network.it should be pointed out that the initial assets have a greater impact on the adoption of farmers' decisions than social networks.Secondly,the initial assets are divided into the initial fixed assets and the initial current assets and the social network into network interaction,network intimacy,network trust and network mutual benefit by factor analysis.The results show that the initial fixed assets,network interaction and network intimacy have a positive effect on the water saving irrigation technology promotion.Thirdly,the initial assets and social networks are complementary in the promotion water-saving irrigation technology through the interactive analysis,which has the same relationship between fixed assets and social networks.But Network Interaction,Reciprocity and initial assets are alternative role in improving farmers' willingness to adopt the technology.
Keywords/Search Tags:water saving irrigation, initial assets, socialnetwork, information transmission
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