Institute of Rural Development, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing 100732, China.
National Agricultural Exhibition Center, Beijing 100125, China.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2023 Feb 24;20(5):4051. doi: 10.3390/ijerph20054051.
Green technologies are important for achieving green and high-quality agricultural development. The Chinese government has issued various policies to explicitly encourage the adoption of green technologies. However, incentives for Chinese farmers to adopt green technologies remain insufficient. This study examines whether participation in agricultural cooperatives can help break the barriers to Chinese farmers' adoption of green technologies. It also examines the potential mechanisms by which cooperatives can mitigate the lack of incentives for farmers to adopt agricultural green technologies. Using data from a study on farmers in four Chinese provinces, we found that cooperative participation significantly increases farmers' adoption behavior for both green technologies with effective market incentives (e.g., commercial organic fertilizer technologies) and those without such incentives (e.g., water-saving irrigation technologies).
绿色技术对于实现绿色和高质量农业发展至关重要。中国政府出台了多项政策，明确鼓励采用绿色技术。然而，中国农民采用绿色技术的激励措施仍然不足。本研究考察了加入农业合作社是否有助于打破中国农民采用绿色技术的障碍。它还探讨了合作社缓解农民采用农业绿色技术缺乏激励的潜在机制。利用来自中国四个省份的农民研究数据，我们发现合作社参与显著增加了农民对具有有效市场激励的绿色技术（例如，商业有机肥料技术）和缺乏此类激励的绿色技术（例如，节水灌溉技术）的采用行为。
