关键词: 农户特征, 资源禀赋, 台湾农业技术, 采用行为

Abstract: A research into the interactive relationship between farmer characteristics and resource endowment and the adoption of Taiwan agricultural technologies will produce not only positive theoretical significance but also practical reference value in understanding farmers decision over the adoption of Taiwan agricultural technologies. The possible factors affecting farmers adoption of Taiwan agricultural technologies were defined in this paper， and then were further subdivided into 16 explanatory variables. Then corresponding research hypotheses were raised regarding the relationship between these 16 explanatory variables and explained variables on the farmers adoption behavior of Taiwan agricultural technologies; next， according to the data collected from 328 field survey samples， logistic regression model was adopted to carry out a statistic analysis. The results showed that there were seven biggest explanatory variables that had significant impacts on explaining farmers adoption of Taiwan agricultural technologies， namely gender of the farmer， educational level， participation of agricultural cooperative organization or lack thereof， position in the family， family labor， average annual household income， and the percentage of agricultural income on the total income．

Key words: farmer characteristics, resource endowments, Taiwan agricultural technology, adoption behavior