Research on Agricultural Machinery Services for the Purpose of Promoting Conservation Agriculture: An Evolutionary Game Analysis Involving Farmers, Agricultural Machinery Service Organizations and Governments

Fan Zhang, Jindi Bei, Qingzhe Shi, Ying Wang and Ling Wu ()
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Fan Zhang: School of Engineering College, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin 150030, China
Jindi Bei: School of Engineering College, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin 150030, China
Qingzhe Shi: School of Engineering College, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin 150030, China
Ying Wang: School of Engineering College, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin 150030, China
Ling Wu: School of Marxism College, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin 150030, China

Agriculture, 2024, vol. 14, issue 8, 1-21

Abstract: Agricultural machinery services are an important guaranteed way to promote Conservation Agriculture. It is of great significance to study how to encourage farmers to choose agricultural machinery services to promote the standard implementation of Conservation Agriculture technology. In order to promote the implementation of Conservation Agriculture and improve the supply of agricultural machinery services, this paper identifies the stakeholders of normative Conservation Agriculture technology adoption behavior and the relationship between agricultural machinery service organizations, farmers and agriculture-related governments. An evolutionary game model was established to evaluate the decision-making characteristics of tripartite behavior and simulate the evolution trend of stakeholder behavior. The results show that agriculture-related governments, agricultural machinery service organizations and farmers can achieve evolutionarily stable strategies. The punishments and subsidies of agriculture-related governments and the supervision cost of all links of agricultural machinery social service organizations can significantly affect the behavior strategies of the three parties. The government set up reasonable subsidy and punishment mechanisms, and the agricultural machinery service organization controls the supervision cost of all links to ensure the stability of the three-party behavior strategy. This study provides theoretical guidance for scientific decision making and active cooperative development of the government, farmers and agricultural machinery service organizations and lays a foundation for countermeasures and suggestions to further promote farmers’ implementation of Conservation Agriculture technology.

Keywords: Conservation Agriculture; agricultural machinery socialization service; evolutionary game; government management (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q1 Q10 Q11 Q12 Q13 Q14 Q15 Q16 Q17 Q18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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