| China’s agricultural is currently in the stage of transition from traditional agriculture to agricultural modernization.The transformation of agricultural modernization needs to accelerate the promotion and application of agricultural scientific and technological achievements in the planting side.This requires more subjects to participate in the modern agricultural technology extension system to achieve an effective connection between farmers and the development of modern agriculture.Cooperative is a new type of agricultural management subject arising from rural society.On the one hand,cooperatives and small farmers have a close relationship,and cooperatives can continue to organize small farmers at the planting end throughout the entire agricultural planting cycle.On the other hand,as the main body of scale,cooperatives can effectively connect the technical end and the market end,and realize the bridge between the technical end and the market end to the main body of the planting end.Domestic research on the agricultural technology extension system mostly focuses on the background of the government’s unitary subject.Scholars explore government public welfare technology extension services or agricultural-related leading enterprises’ operational technology services.Under the background of multi-subject participation,there is less research on grass-roots agricultural technology extension.There are few articles on the practice,role and problem countermeasures of cooperatives and other subjects participating in agricultural technology extension and promotion.Therefore,from the perspective of farmers’ professional cooperatives,this paper studies the relationship between cooperatives and agricultural technology promotion subjects such as universities,enterprises,governments,and associations,analyzes the role of cooperatives in it and the problems that arise,analyzes the causes of problems,and puts forward countermeasures and prospects.This paper takes Meixian Kiwifruit Industry Cooperative as the research subject.Firstly,the research and investigation of 5 kiwifruit industry cooperatives in T village in Meixian area are conducted,and the motivation and process of T village cooperatives’ participation in agricultural technology promotion are analyzed based on the theory of institutional change and technology diffusion,so as to define the main cooperative and reference frame of this study;Secondly,on the basis of defining the main cooperative,the agricultural technology promotion practice between cooperatives and the government,enterprises,universities,and farmers is summarized into a "1+3+N" model.In this way,the main body of cooperatives in the mode is distinguished,the secondary core main body of the government and the cooperative main body of colleges and enterprises,which is convenient to explain the functions of each subject in the mode.Analyze and propose countermeasures.The research finds out the practical operation mechanism of cooperation under the background of multiple subjects of agricultural technology promotion,and summarizes the formation mode;at the same time,it explores the influence of technology diffusion on the differentiation of cooperative members,and the law that the differentiation of members will further induce changes in the cooperative system,so as to improve the agricultural cooperatives’ agricultural performance.In the field of technology diffusion research,the connection between the theory of technology diffusion and the theory of institutional change has been found.The research shows that the agricultural technology extension system in Meixian County has formed a practice model with the participation of multiple subjects.The cooperatives have played the main linking role between the planting end and the production end,and the interactive experience with the multiple agricultural technology extension subjects can provide reference for other regions;Participation in agricultural technology extension has both positive and negative effects.On the positive side,it can promote the accumulation of the cooperative’s own scientific and technological resource elements,resulting in the benefits of technology promotion and farmers’ income increase;on the negative side,the cooperative’s participation in technology diffusion leads to the imbalance of technical resources among the members of the cooperative,which leads to the differentiation of members.We should control the scale between cooperative technology diffusion and institutional changes,guide the relationship between cooperatives and the agricultural technology extension system,and explore the empirical value of multi-subject participation in agricultural technology extension. |