Acta Agriculturae Zhejiangensis ›› 2021, Vol. 33 ›› Issue (10): 1971-1981.DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1004-1524.2021.10.21

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Analysis of farmers’ participation in e-commerce of agricultural products from perspective of social network: based on 349 household survey data from Hubei, Shandong, Anhui and Gansu in China

HU Yuelia,b(), XIA Chunpingaa,b,*(), JIA Chenga,b, WANG Cuicuia,b   

  1. a. College of Economics and Management; b.Institute of E-Commerce, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China
  • Received:2020-09-27 Online:2021-10-25 Published:2021-11-02
  • Contact: XIA Chunpinga

Abstract:

Based on 349 household survey data collected from Hubei, Shandong, Anhui and Gansu in China, a theoretical analysis of farmers’ participation in the e-commerce of agricultural products was conducted from the perspective of social network. The effect of social network and its four dimensions on farmers’ participation in the e-commerce of agricultural products was revealed by using the Binary Logistic model. On the basis, group regressions were conducted according to the gender, education, and e-commerce training status of the interviewed farmers, to examine the influences of the social network in different groups.The results showed that the social network and its two dimensions, namely, network interaction and network learning, had significant (P<0.01) impact on farmers’ participation in the e-commerce of agricultural products, and the impact of network learning was greater than that of network interaction. Compared with the male farmers and highly-educated farmers, the promotion effect of social network, network interaction and network learning was stronger for female farmers and lowly-educated farmers. In addition, other factors such as the farmland quality, and the e-commerce promotion level of government or e-commerce platform, also had significant (P<0.1 at least) impact on farmers’ participation in the e-commerce of agricultural products.

Key words: social network, network interaction, network learning, e-commerce of agricultural products

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