Abstract

Straw returning is important for rural ecological management and sustainable agricultural development. Using farm survey data for Anhui Province, China, in 2020, we applied the double-hurdle model to investigate the impact of agricultural machinery services and land fragmentation on farmers' straw-returning behavior, and to explore the relationship between agricultural machinery self-service and outsourced service. Self-service had a significant positive effect on farmers' straw-returning behavior, while outsourced service had a significant positive effect only on degree of adoption. Land fragmentation had a significant negative effect on farmers' straw-returning behavior, and significantly inhibited the effect of self-service on adoption decision. Complementarity existed between self-service and outsourced service in farmers' straw-returning adoption decision, and the effect was more pronounced among smaller-scale farmers. There was significant substitutability between self-service and outsourced service in degree of adoption among larger-scale farmers. Transfer and integration of rural land, increasing agricultural machinery purchase subsidy, upgrading farmers' self-service capability, and promoting development of socialized agricultural machinery services should be implemented to promote crop straw returning. EconLit Citations: Q01, Q16.

Keywords

crop straw returning; double-hurdle model; extension service; outsourced service

Published in

Agribusiness
2024,
Publisher: WILEY

SLU Authors

• Huang, Wei

  • Department of Economics, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

UKÄ Subject classification

Business Administration
Agricultural Science


Publication identifier

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/agr.21934

Permanent link to this page (URI)

https://res.slu.se/id/publ/128978