Acta Agriculturae Zhejiangensis ›› 2024, Vol. 36 ›› Issue (11): 2635-2646.DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1004-1524.20240016

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Government propaganda, consumer awareness and satisfaction with quality and safety of agricultural products: based on survey data from 18 districts and counties in Zhejiang Province, China

YU Jiajie(), KE Fuyan(), XU Zhiyuan   

  1. Institute of Rural Development, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou 310021, China
  • Received:2023-12-29 Online:2024-11-25 Published:2024-11-27

Abstract:

Improving consumers’ satisfaction with the quality and safety of agricultural products is one of the important goals of the government’s agricultural product quality and safety work. Based on 3 060 consumer survey data from 18 districts and counties in Zhejiang Province, this article uses the Oprobit model to explore the impact of government propaganda on consumer satisfaction with the quality and safety of agricultural products and its mechanism. The study found that government propaganda significantly improved consumer satisfaction with the quality and safety of agricultural products. Mechanism analysis shows that consumers’ awareness of agricultural product quality and safety plays a mediating effect on the impact of government propaganda on agricultural product quality and safety satisfaction. The heterogeneity study found that government propaganda played a more effective role in the young group and the highly educated group. To this end, it is recommended to increase publicity on the quality and safety of agricultural products and improve the pertinence of the publicity, thereby improving consumers’ satisfaction with the quality and safety of agricultural products.

Key words: government propaganda, consumer cognition, quality and safety of agricultural products, satisfaction

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