School of Management, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu 611130, China.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 Jun 8;19(12):7013. doi: 10.3390/ijerph19127013.
Clarifying the factors influencing the safe use of pesticide is essential for scientific decision making to effectively manage pesticide use and promote sustainable agroecological development. The study aims to explore the factors influencing farmers' safe use of pesticides from the perspectives of external supervision and face consciousness. Using survey data covering 534 farm households in Sichuan province, this study empirically analyzes the influence mechanisms of external supervision, face consciousness, and their interaction terms on farmers' safe use of pesticides by employing the binary logit and IV-2SLS model, and further reveals their intergenerational differences on this basis. The results show that external supervision and positive face consciousness have significantly positive effects on pesticide safety use by farmers; market supervision and ability-type face, respectively, play the biggest role among them. Furthermore, there is an interaction effect between external supervision and face consciousness with respect to pesticide safety use. Farmers with different generation farms are influenced differently by external supervision and face consciousness. The behaviors of the new generation farmers to safely use pesticide are principally influenced by government supervision, market supervision, and ability-type face; in contrast, the ones of the older generation farmers are mainly influenced by market supervision, organization supervision, and relationship-type face.
阐明影响农药安全使用的因素对于科学决策至关重要，有助于有效管理农药使用，促进农业生态的可持续发展。本研究旨在从外部监督和面子意识的角度探讨影响农民安全使用农药的因素。利用四川省 534 户农户的调查数据，本文采用二元逻辑回归和 IV-2SLS 模型实证分析了外部监督、面子意识及其交互项对农民安全使用农药的影响机制，并在此基础上进一步揭示了其代际差异。结果表明，外部监督和积极面子意识对农民安全使用农药有显著的正向影响；其中，市场监督和能力型面子分别发挥着最大的作用。此外，外部监督和面子意识在农药安全使用方面存在交互效应。不同代际农户受到外部监督和面子意识的影响不同。新生代农户安全使用农药的行为主要受政府监督、市场监督和能力型面子的影响；而老一代农户的行为则主要受市场监督、组织监督和关系型面子的影响。
