Can Agricultural Cooperatives Promote Chinese Farmers’ Adoption of Green Technologies?

Chong Dong, Hainan Wang (), Wenjin Long, Jiujie Ma and Yi Cui
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Chong Dong: Institute of Rural Development, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing 100732, China
Hainan Wang: National Agricultural Exhibition Center, Beijing 100125, China
Jiujie Ma: School of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development, Renmin University of China, Beijing 100872, China
Yi Cui: School of Economics, Beijing Technology and Business University, Beijing 100048, China

IJERPH, 2023, vol. 20, issue 5, 1-17

Abstract: Green technologies are important for achieving green and high-quality agricultural development. The Chinese government has issued various policies to explicitly encourage the adoption of green technologies. However, incentives for Chinese farmers to adopt green technologies remain insufficient. This study examines whether participation in agricultural cooperatives can help break the barriers to Chinese farmers’ adoption of green technologies. It also examines the potential mechanisms by which cooperatives can mitigate the lack of incentives for farmers to adopt agricultural green technologies. Using data from a study on farmers in four Chinese provinces, we found that cooperative participation significantly increases farmers’ adoption behavior for both green technologies with effective market incentives (e.g., commercial organic fertilizer technologies) and those without such incentives (e.g., water-saving irrigation technologies).

Keywords: green technology; technology adoption behavior; agricultural cooperatives; water-saving irrigation technology; commercial organic fertilizer (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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