Scientia Agricultura Sinica ›› 2013, Vol. 46 ›› Issue (15): 3238-3247.doi: 10.3864/j.issn.0578-1752.2013.15.019

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Impact of Natural-Environmental Factors on the Crop Choices of Households — A Case Study in Binxian County of Heilongjiang Province

 LIU  Zhen-Huan, YANG  Peng, WU  Wen-Bin, LI  Zheng-Guo, TANG  Peng-Qin, LI  Zhi-Peng, YU  Qiang-Yi, XIA  Tian, TANG  Hua-Jun   

  1. Institute of Agricultural Resources and Regional Planning, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences/Key Laboratory of Agri-informatics, Ministry of Agriculture, Beijing 100081
  • Received:2012-09-20 Online:2013-08-01 Published:2013-03-19

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Abstract: 【Objective】 How famers change crops to adapt to climate and natural disasters, were studied in this paper in order to provides a basis for government policy-making.【Method】Questionnaire method was used to sample the perception of natural environmental change and crop choice of household. All of 384 farmers were being interviewed by a household face-to-face interview in Binxian County, Northeast China. Frequency method was used to analyze the impact of perception of climate change and natural disasters on famers’ crop choice in the past 30 years.【Result】The results show that climate change, frequency of natural disasters and crop yield could significantly affect famer crop choice. In famers’ attitude, crop yield was the first important factor when they changed crop, followed by climate change, less importance of the frequency of natural disasters. However, the importance of climate change and natural disasters will be improved when they change rice to maize because of crop growth closed to natural environment factor. Replacement of crop types and varieties and adjustment of farming season were the more popular behavior that farmers adapt to natural environmental factors. The trends of farmers perception of the natural environmental change were the same with the actual trends, it affect famers to take the initiative to change the type of crop.【Conclusion】In order to improve famers adaption to natural environmental change, the government should improve farmers active adaptive behavior, guide the famers to improve the ability to response to climate change and natural disasters, and more high-level regional agriculture planning and policy guidance are also needed in the future.

Key words: natural-environmental factor , crop choices , famers&rsquo, attitude , adaptation

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