Research On Farmers’ Adoption Of IPM Technology Based On System Analysis

Seeking for the effective policies of reducing pesticide use has been the focus of agricultural sustainable development in recent years.The adoption of IPM(integrated pest management)technology for farmers has helped reduce the use of chemical pesticides.China has now become the world’s largest producer and consumer of pesticides,the problem of pesticide residues is serious in China,damaging to the safety of agricultural products and the quality of the ecological environment.It is necessary to promote farmers to use drugs scientifically and rationally by comprehensive management to improve the safety of agricultural products and the quality of ecological environment.Integrated pest management(IPM)technology,as an environment-friendly agricultural technology with social and economic benefits,is an important means and effective way to ensure the safety of agricultural production.As high-value agricultural product,apple has a high degree of marketization and investment value.It’s urgent for apple growers to use IPM technology to reduce agricultural production risks.Therefore,it’s of great theoretical and practical significance to select the IPM technology for apples as the research object in this thesis.This thesis explores farmers’ adoption of IPM technology.Firstly determining research methods and ideas by combining research background.Then elaborating the relevant theories and defining the main concepts.Then constructing a social ecosystem for farmers’ pest control behaviors and using the AHP method to analyze the weight of each influencing factor of farmers’ IPM technology adopting behaviors.At last,Poisson econometric model was used to empirically test the effects of factors with larger weights on farmers’ safe use of pesticides and adoption of IPM technology based on the results of the system analysis.The following conclusions are draw:Firstly,education level,non-agricultural experience and recognition of agricultural product area certification system promotes farmers’ safe use of pesticides significantly.Secondly,the perceived ease use of IPM technology and the increase in apple selling prices significantly promotes farmers’ adoption of IPM technology.Thirdly,the planting size significantly promotes farmers’ safe use of pesticides,but the proportion of apple income negatively affects farmers’ safe use of pesticides and the adoption of IPM technology.Fourthly,the certification of agricultural product area promotes farmers’ safe use of pesticides significantly,but the use of prohibited pesticides by farmers in certified agricultural product area has not disappeared.Subsidy policies can significantlypromote farmers’ adoption of IPM technology.Fifthly,pesticide retailers’ recommendations negatively affect farmers’ safe use of pesticides.Based on these conclusions,policy recommendations are proposed:(1)To popularize the knowledge about restricted pesticides,agricultural product area certification and IPM technology to farmers who are less educated or more live on agricultural income.(2)To guarantee the market income of apples with IPM technology.(3)To encourage farmers to grow on a large scale,encourage more planting areas to participate in agricultural product area certification,and expand the scale of certified agricultural product area.(4)The government should strengthen the governance and post-evaluation of certified agro-product area,and ensure farmers produce in accordance with certification standards strictly.To perfect the subsidy policy on IPM technology and pay more attention to farmers’ favorite subsidy form.(5)The government should strengthen the regulation on pesticide retailers and further perfect the pesticide sales management system.