An Inquiry Into The Influencing Socioeconomic Factors Of Pesticide Application On Wheat

Food safety is related to the health and well-being of our citizens,and peesticide irregular application has always been an important curse to the safety of agricultural products.Aimed at the potential pesticide abuse in wheat production,this paper conducted a full sample survey of a poverty-alleviation village,located in Henan Province,according to the rural economic survey methodology.With the special advantages of this survey,our data obtained from the rural grassroots confirmed that the pesticide irregular application does occur in the wheat production process with regard to pesticide type,toxicity,dosage,use frequency and safety interval consciousness,which may incur the pesticide residues of wheat and processed flour beyond safety levels.At the same time,the survey shows that the local area of the North China Plain is facing the social problem of "brain drain",and the absolute and relative economic efficiency of grain cultivation are very low.Such a preliminary understanding of the current situation of rural economic society gets the affirmation of a village cadre.In this paper,the binary LOGIT regression model was used to analyze the socioeconomic factors that affected pesticide application and the technical analysis was carried out in detail.Thanks to targeted social interviews,significant explanatory variables are discussed close to the grassroots.Among them,with respect to the excessive pesticide dose,productive effect,the cognition of active ingredient,the awareness of pesticide residues,education and the proportion of agricultural income played a significant role;for the excessive herbicide dose,hidden labor cost,the awareness of pesticide residues,the proportion of agricultural income,marketing guidance,agricultural experience and gender played a significant role;for the illegal pesticide frequency,active ingredient awareness,education,the proportion of agricultural income,planting area,marketing guidance and the awareness of pesticide residues played a significant role;for the lack of safety interval consciousness,the proportion of agricultural income,government intervention and agricultural experience played a significant role.This paper further argues that with the decline of agriculture and the political status of peasants,it is difficult for them to strive for a favorable division of labor.The low efficiency of agriculture makes farmers neglect the safety of agricultural products.After joining the WTO,the competition in the international market has affected the traditional ecological agriculture,forcing the farmers to embark on the road of chemical agriculture to improve the economic efficiency.In the absence of effective food safety training,together with the superficial awareness of pesticide residue and the incentive to reduce the hidden labor cost,farmers show the wayward use of pesticide naturally.The vast majority of farmers do not have differentiated production,indicating that farmers are not outside the threats of pesticide residues on wheat.In the scarcity of the world,it is more important that the quantity of food is safe,the pursuit of which in the short term,will inevitably lead to the path dependence of chemical inputs such as pesticides and fertilizers.In the context of the Green Revolution,we need to continue the implementation of Precise Poverty Alleviation Project and to support agriculture more.Meanwhile,more prudent management and guidance on pesticide marketing should be imposed,and pesticide training hand by hand within crop field is highly suggested.Last but not least,it is our responsibility to reduce food waste.