Research on the Impact of Members' Social Capital within Agricultural Cooperatives on Their Adoption of IPM in China

Agricultural cooperatives are effective facilitators of green production technology promotion. What is the role of social capital within agricultural cooperatives with the most competitive advantage in technology promotion? Using the survey data of 465 citrus-planting cooperative members in Sichuan...

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Published inInternational journal of environmental research and public health Vol. 19; no. 18; p. 11538
Main Authors Liu, Yuying, Liu, Ziqi, Liu, Jingzheng, Qiu, Ling, Wang, Yulin, Fu, Xinhong
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Switzerland MDPI AG 13.09.2022
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Subjects
Agricultural cooperatives
Agricultural practices
Agriculture
China
Cognition
Impact analysis
Integrated pest management
Parameter estimation
Pest control
Pest Control - methods
Pesticides
Social Capital
Social networks
Statistical methods
Technology
Technology adoption
China
IPM adoption
mediating effect
green production technology
agricultural cooperatives
IV probit model
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Summary:Agricultural cooperatives are effective facilitators of green production technology promotion. What is the role of social capital within agricultural cooperatives with the most competitive advantage in technology promotion? Using the survey data of 465 citrus-planting cooperative members in Sichuan Province, this study uses the IV-probit model and mediating effect model to analyze the impact role of social capital within agricultural cooperatives on its members' adoption of integrated pest management (IPM) technology. The bootstrap method is also used to test the robustness of the parameter estimates. The results show that: (1) the social capital within agricultural cooperatives has a significant positive impact on IPM adoption; (2) cooperative members' IPM cognition has a partial mediating effect on the impact of the social capital within agricultural cooperatives on its members' adoption of IPM technology (more than 51.37%). Therefore, among all the optional IPM technology promotion measures of cooperatives, multi-dimensional accumulation of the social capital within agricultural cooperatives and promotion of IPM technology awareness level of members is a viable path.
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These authors contributed equally to this work.
ISSN:1660-4601
1661-7827
1660-4601
DOI:10.3390/ijerph191811538