Internet can do help in the reduction of pesticide use by farmers: evidence from rural China
| Autor: | Yuhe Pan, Xianli Xia, Qiuqian Zhao |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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China
Health Knowledge Attitudes Practice Agrochemical Health Toxicology and Mutagenesis education Pesticide application 010501 environmental sciences 01 natural sciences Human capital Agricultural economics Occupational Exposure Probit model Humans Environmental Chemistry Pesticides 0105 earth and related environmental sciences Farmers business.industry Agriculture General Medicine Pollution Survey data collection The Internet Business Social capital |
| Zdroj: | Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 28:2063-2073 |
| ISSN: | 1614-7499 0944-1344 |
| Popis: | Promoting agrochemical reduction is a prerequisite for high-quality development of agriculture. It is still controversial whether Internet use can reduce pesticide use. This study uses the survey data of 670 vegetable growers of two provinces in China, Shandong and Shaanxi. Probit model and bootstrap method were used to analyze the impact of Internet use in reduction of pesticide application by farmers. Shallow use and deep use of the Internet were taken into account. On this basis, multiple mediating effects were tested on the following three aspects: information acquisition ability, awareness of green production, and e-commerce sales capability. The study found that shallow use and deep use of the Internet have a significant direct impact on pesticide reduction by farmers. Information acquisition ability, awareness of green production, and e-commerce sales capability all play a significant positive mediating role in the deep use of the Internet affecting pesticide reduction. However, in the process of shallow use of the Internet affecting pesticide reduction, only the mediating effect of green production awareness is significant. Concurrently, compared with the shallow use of the Internet, the deep use of the Internet has a significant positive impact on rural groups with weak human capital and weak social capital. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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