Analysis On The Effect Factors On The Adopting Behavior About Soil Testing And Formulated Fertilization Technology Of Peasant Household

Soil testing and formulated fertilization technology had economic and environmental dual effects in agricultural production in theory, and could optimize farmers’ fertilization inputs,thus had a very important goal of practical significance in increasing revenue and reducing agricultural non-point source pollution. Over the years, relevant levels of departments of national and local were also efforts to promote the technology. So in the actual process of agricultural production, was soil testing and formulated fertilization technology able to achieve the goal to increase revenue? Which factors influenced whether farmers using the soil testing and formulated fertilization technology? How the mechanism of each type of factors affected the direction and degree? For answer these questions, we should have more comprehensive and objective understanding of our soil testing and formulated fertilization technology. Finding the focus of technology promotion policies had a great practical significance and theoretical value.Therefore, from soil testing and formulated fertilization technology perspective of the economic effects, and on the basis of the theory of household technology adoption behavior, using the survey data from one of the first soil testing and fertilizer funds for farmers counties TAIHU County, this paper at first comparatively analyzed farmers’ fertilizer behavior and cost and revenue between who adopted the technology and not by using descriptive statistical method and verified the economic effects of soil testing and formulated fertilization technology. Then, on the theoretical analysis of this study, we tried to clarify the factors which influenced farmers whether to adopt soil testing and formulated fertilization technology, and clarify the mechanism of each factor. Next, using micro survey data and taking binary Logistic model,we quantitative analyzed all factors’ direction and extent which influenced farmers’technology adoption behavior, meant to find policies for the target population and to provide theoretical and practical focus support.Based on the above analysis, this paper’s main conclusions are as follows:(1)The adoption of soil testing and formulated fertilization technology can improve the structure of households’fertilization. From the perspective of crop fertilizer inputs, Specific performance results are as follows:The soil testing and formulated fertilization technology adopted farmers, whose inputs of N、P of indica rice、late rice、cotton are lower than the inputs of who don’t adopt the technology. But it has a opposite result in early rice and rape. Farmers who adopted the technology have higher K inputs in every crop. From N:P and N:K point, soil testing and formulated fertilization technology adopted farmers tend to input more K and less P. This fertilizer behavior is more line with local soil moisture, and promotes the improvement of crop yield. Yield analysis results confirm this. Farmers who adopted soil testing and formulated fertilization technology have higher yield per acre than who did not adopt this technology in every crop.(2)The results of the cost and revenue analysis showed that farmers who adopt this new technology get a higher yield, increasing by9%or more per acre. In particular, the increasing of yield of cash crop is more obvious, more than19%. As to the cereal crops, indica rice of them, the planting area of which is biggest, gets a increasing by20%. And such increasing effect is definitely very obvious. Compared with the cost of fertilizer inputs, we find there is little gap between farmers who take the technology and those do not. But rape plant is an exception. Its cost increases by16%. And the costs of late indica rice and cotton get a tiny decrease. Then we compare the analysis of growth rate of revenue and cost, finding that growth rate of revenue is obviously higher than growth rate of cost. And therefore we get a conclusion that soil testing and fertilizer technology definitely has a economic effect.(3)Age, gender, land size, and industry level, the distance between home and the town, the channel of buying fertilizer, and whether or not have any training or guidance all have a significant effect on farmer’s behavior. Among those influencing factors above, Age, industry level, the distance between home and the town have a negative effect while gender, land size, the channel of buying fertilizer, and whether or not have any training or guidance have a positive effect.Finally, based on empirical analysis of the results, some relevant policy recommendations are given out.