Scientia Agricultura Sinica ›› 2012, Vol. 45 ›› Issue (5): 1023-1030.doi: 10.3864/j.issn.0578-1752.2012.05.025

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Impacts of Technology Training Programs in Farmer Field Schools on the Adoption of Environment-Friendly Technology: Empirical Evidences from the Tomato Production in Beijing

 CAI  Jin-Yang, HU  Rui-Fa, XIAO  Chang-Kun, WANG  Xiao-Bing   

  1. 1.中国科学院地理科学与资源研究所农业政策研究中心，北京 100101
    2.北京理工大学管理与经济学院，北京 100081
    3.中国农业大学农学与生物技术学院，北京 100193
    4.北京市植物保护站，北京 100029
  • Received:2011-06-15 Online:2012-03-01 Published:2011-09-15

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Abstract: 【Objective】The impacts of technology training programs in farmer field schools (FFS) on the adoption of environment-friendly technology was analyzed.【Method】 Through random sampling strategy of the farmers in tomato production in suburbans of Beijing, the econometric method was used to obtain the corresponding results. 【Result】The descriptive statistics indicate that the percentage of farmers who adopt the environment-friendly technology is less than 20%. The empirical analysis shows that under the conditions of other variables are controlled, the proportion of the environment-friendly technology in irrigation adopted by farmers who have attended the technology training programs in FFS is 14.7% higher than that for the farmers who have not attended the training program. In respect to adopting the environment-friendly fertilization technology, the proportion of farmers who have attended the training program in FFS is 8.3% higher than those who have not attended the training program. 【Conclusion】The results show that the training program in FFS significantly enhanced the adoption of environment-friendly technology, especially the irrigation and fertilization technologies in production. 

Key words: farmer field school, environment-friendly technology, probit model

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