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2021
Factors influencing the adoption of agricultural machinery by Chinese maize farmers
Factors influencing the adoption of agricultural machinery by Chinese maize farmers
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As the major labor force has shifted from rural areas to cities, labor shortages in agricultural production have resulted. In the context of technical progress impact, and depending on farm resource endowments, farmers will choose effective labor saving technology such as machinery to substitute for the missing manual labor. The reasons behind farmers’ adoption of machinery technology are worth exploring. Therefore, this study uses 4165 Chinese maize farmers as the target group. Multivariate probit models were performed to identify the factors that affect maize farmers’ adoption of four machinery technologies as well as the interrelation between these adoption decisions. The empirical results indicate that maize sowing area, arable land area, crop diversity, family labor, subsidy, technical assistance, and economies of scale have positive effects on machinery adoption, while the number of discrete fields in the farm has a negative impact. Maize farmers in the Northeast and North have higher machinery adoption odds than other regions. The adoption of these four machinery technologies are interrelated and complementary. Finally, moderate scale production, crop diversification, subsidizing agricultural machinery and its extension education, and land consolidation, are given as recommendations for promoting the adoption of agricultural machinery by Chinese maize farmers.
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Agriculture, 11 (2021), 11, 1090.
https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture11111090.
ISSN: 2077-0472
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Agricultural machinery China Maize production Technology adoption
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@article{Quan2021,
url = {https://hohpublica.uni-hohenheim.de/handle/123456789/16879},
doi = {10.3390/agriculture11111090},
author = {Quan, Xiuhao and Doluschitz, Reiner},
title = {Factors Influencing the Adoption of Agricultural Machinery by Chinese Maize Farmers},
journal = {Agriculture},
year = {2021},
}