Embeddedness And Absorption:Research On That Farmer Cooperatives Remodel Agricultural Technology Extension System

For a long time,the transformation of traditional agriculture is an important aspect to promote the industrialization of agriculture in China,and it is also an important way to realize the modernization of agriculture in China.In 2018,the No.1 document of the Central Committee put forward the strategy of revitalization of the countryside,which called for effective connection between small farmers and modern agricultural development.This is a profound transformation of our understanding of the new agricultural management body over the years.In China's rural society,the most closely related organization of small farmers are farmers' cooperatives and agricultural technology extension system.But the relationship between farmers' cooperatives and agricultural technology extension system is not clear enough,which is not conducive to explore the effective link between small farmers and modern agriculture.Therefore,from the perspective of farmer cooperatives,this paper explores the relationship between farmers' cooperatives and agricultural technology extension system,and analyze the performance,the mechanism and the impact of that cooperatives remodel agricultural technology extension system.This paper,taking the cooperatives of Meixian County as a typical case,finds that there are two coexisting development trends in the cooperative.While the cooperatives are constantly embedded in the system,the organization also has a larger internal differentiation.This paper takes the leader of cooperatives as the standard,and divides cooperatives into three types,such as the leading enterprises lead type cooperatives,rural entrepreneurs founded type cooperatives and village committee lead type cooperatives.Based on the classification of three kinds of cooperatives,this paper considers that three types of cooperatives to some extent are modified by capital transformation,especially the leading enterprises lead type cooperatives have become the typical capital of cooperatives,this capital of cooperatives not only embed agricultural extension system,also continue to absorb the agricultural extension.In the view of resource dependence theory,the capitalized cooperatives adopt a variety of strategies,namely adaptation strategy,internal transformation strategy,internal strategy ofexternal resources and alliance strategy.Through the different absorptive behavior of the Agriculture Technology Extension System from multiple subjects,the system has been remolded.There are complex mechanisms for the cooperatives to absorb the agricultural technology extension,which are mainly embodied in the policy guidance of the central government,the endogenous demand of agricultural capitalization,the political guidance of the local government,the administrative logic of the Agricultural Technology Extension Department and the rational choice of the small farmers.Moreover,the cooperative absorption of agricultural technology will lead to a relatively stable relationship between the cooperative and the system,which will induce more resources to be invested,and thus have higher interdependence.The adoption of agricultural technology promotion by cooperatives will not only reshape agricultural technology extension system,but also lead to reduce farmers.This is because that the co-operatives reshape the agricultural technology extension system,which will cause a profound change in the social service system,the agricultural resources and the agricultural technology extension service,which leads to the withdrawal of the agricultural production by the middle peasants and the small farmers.In addition,in the cooperative implementation of the trusteeship model based on the membership system and the transfer of farmland,farmers will not only be excluded from agricultural production,but also become semi-property farmers.This means that the capitalized cooperatives not only reshape the agricultural technology extension system,but also reshape the class structure of the rural society.Finally,this paper has extended some discussions on three topics: farmer cooperatives,agricultural technology extension system and agricultural modernization.