Study On The Influence Of Incentives And Constraints,Pesticide Residue Perception On Farmers’ Application Behavior

The quality and safety of agricultural products,as the basis of human health and sustainable social development,are gradually receiving widespread attention.Pesticide is an irreplaceable and important technology in modern plant protection technology,which plays a certain role in stable and high yield of crops.However,China’s agriculture is mainly operated by small farmers,subject to their own as well as technical services,policies and other factors of limitations,their application behavior is not completely rational,often appear irregular,unscientific and other problems.This not only affects the quality and safety of our agricultural products,but also brings a certain amount of pollution to the local ecological environment and causes certain negative effects on society.In view of the current negative externalities of pesticide use,this thesis selects rice,one of the three major food crops,as the research object and uses microscopic research data from farmers in Feixi County,Anhui Province,to explore the problem of irregular pesticide use.Firstly,the research data were analyzed to understand the basic situation of farmers,the application of pesticides,the implementation of incentives and constraints,and the knowledge of pesticide residues;secondly,from the external incentives and constraints,the Logit model was used to analyze its influence on farmers’ behavior in implementing the regulated application of pesticides,and to analyze the differences of different measures on farmers’ behavior and the reasons for them;finally,the AMOS software was used to construct Finally,structural equation modeling was used to investigate the mediating effect of farmers’ pesticide residue perceptions in the incentive and constraint measures affecting farmers’ application behavior.The results of the study showed that about one-fourth of the farmers still adopt unregulated behavior in the process of pesticide application;only half of the farmers read the pesticide labels in the process of purchasing pesticides,and 58.7% of the farmers rely on the recommendation of pesticide dealers to purchase pesticides.Government propaganda,safety training,green farming subsidies,price constraints,and government regulation all increase the likelihood that farmers will implement regulated pesticide applications,indicating that the positive guidance of government incentives and the negative regulation of constraints can lead to a change in farmers’ pesticide use behavior.However,the marginal effect of different incentives and restraints on farmers’ implementation of standard pesticide application behavior varies,showing that government regulation > safety training > green farming subsidies > price restraint > government publicity,while the role of quality and safety testing is not significant for the time being.Farmers’ pesticide residue perception has a significant mediating role in the influence of incentives and constraints on farmers’ application behavior,confirming the transmission path of "external information-pesticide residue perception-behavior decision".Based on the above findings,this thesis suggests that incentives and constraints can be used to regulate farmers’ application behavior,including: first,establishing and improving laws and regulations related to pesticide use and increasing pesticide residue testing;second,increasing investment in rural education;third,establishing a training mechanism for safe use of pesticides and expanding the scope of training;fourth,increasing incentives and subsidies and penalties for unsafe production;and fifth,improving The degree of organization of rice growers;Sixth,improve the market system and increase market supervision.