School of Management, Wuhan Polytechnic University, Wuhan 430048, China.
College of Economics and Management, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2023 Mar 1;20(5):4399. doi: 10.3390/ijerph20054399.
Rice-aquatic animal integrated systems can alleviate food and environmental insecurity. Understanding how this practice is adopted by farmers is significant for promoting the development of the agricultural industry. Given the information inadequacy and information frictions in agricultural society in China, farmers are susceptible to the behaviors of their neighbors through social interaction. This paper defines neighboring groups that are both spatially and socially connected to identify whether neighbors influence farmers' adoption of rice-crayfish integrated systems using a sample in the lower and middle reaches of the Yangtze River in China. The findings reveal that for every one-unit increase in neighbors' adoption behavior, the probability of farmers' adoption increases by 0.367 units. Therefore, our results may have great value for policymakers seeking to take advantage of the neighborhood effect to complement formal extension systems and promote the developments of China's ecological agriculture.
稻渔综合种养系统可以缓解粮食和环境安全问题。了解农民如何采用这种做法对于促进农业产业的发展具有重要意义。考虑到中国农业社会信息不足和信息摩擦的问题，农民很容易受到邻居行为的影响。本文通过中国长江中下游地区的一个样本，定义了空间和社会上都相互连接的邻域群体，以确定邻居是否会影响农民对稻虾综合种养系统的采用。研究结果表明，邻居采用行为每增加一个单位，农民采用的概率就会增加 0.367 个单位。因此，我们的研究结果对于政策制定者来说可能具有很大的价值，他们可以利用邻里效应来补充正式的推广系统，促进中国生态农业的发展。
