What could encourage farmers to choose non-chemical pest management? Evidence from apple growers on the Loess Plateau of China

作者：Wang, Yongqiang; Wang, Yan; Zhu, Yuchun^*

来源：Crop Protection, 2018, 114: 53-59.

DOI：10.1016/j.cropro.2018.08.015

• Encourage
• Non-chemical methods
• Poisson model
• Fruit-growing areas

This paper reports a study aiming to ascertain how farmers may be encouraged to use more non-chemical methods of pest management. A randomly selected sample of 600 small-scale farmers on the Loess Plateau of China was investigated in 2016. We analysed the farmers' choice of non-chemical pest management by using a Poisson regression model. The results showed that subsidies for the use of non-chemical pest management methods play a key positive role in farmers' choices of these methods. Certification of green or organic agricultural products, signed sales contracts and years of formal education also have a positive role in relation to farmers' choices of non-chemical pest management. However, an increase in agricultural land has a negative impact on farmers' choices of non-chemical pest management. These results will be helpful for the improvement of related policies on the reduction in chemical pesticide use and the encouragement of non-chemical pest management in fruit-growing areas.

• 出版日期2018-12
• 单位西北农林科技大学