›› 2014, Vol. 26 ›› Issue (3): 0-797804.

• 农业经济与发展 •    

Study on factors influencing farmers adoption of lowcarbon technologies

MI Songhua;HUANG Zuhui;*;ZHU Qibiao;HUANG Lili   

  1. 1 Institute of Rural Development, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou 310021, China; 2Center for Agricultural and Rural Development,Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China
  • Received:1900-01-01 Revised:1900-01-01 Online:2014-05-25 Published:2014-05-25

Abstract: In this study, Logit and Poisson models were estimated to analyze the determinants of farmers adoption willingness and intensity of integrated mitigation technologies for ricebased cropping systems in China. It was shown that the awareness of climate change and technology demonstration would increase the adoption willingness and adoption intensity, respectively. Besides, extension services, access to credit and irrigation infrastructure were also associated with farmers adoption willingness and intensity of mitigation technologies. Based on these results, policy recommendations encouraging farmers adoption of new GHGs mitigation technologies are also discussed from above aspects.

Key words: lowcarbon agriculture, applicable GHGs reduction technologies, technology adoption, rice farmer