| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立中興大學 === 農業推廣教育研究所 === 84 === Influential Factors of Rice Growers'' Participation
Willingness Toward Farmer-Owned Reserve
Program Abstract
This study examined rice growers'' willingness to join farmer-
owned reserve (FOR). A preliminary effort also was made to
identify the possible factors and paths affecting their
willingness. The exogeneous variables employed in the causal
model were categorized into three dimensions─personal
characteristics, farm management, and farmers'' character. Rice-
growing confidence and partici- pation willingness of FOR was
the intervening variable and endogeneous vari- able
respectively. The sampling frame was confined to those
rice-growers residing in Taichung county and did grow rice
during the second harvest season of 1995. The survey was
conducted during April, 1996, and 158 respondents was recruited
for the sample. Multiple regression analysis and path
analysis were used to examine the causal relationships. In
light of the statistics, this study presented the following
findings: First, farmers'' self-cognition, experience, and
rice-reserving habit were identified as the most influential
factors affecting their rice-growing confi- dence. The causal
effect of self-cognition was found to be a negative one, while
the latter two were positively related to the rice-growing
confidence. Second, the farmers'' willingness to join FOR
was verified to be beyond the average level with respect to
present FOR type. In fact, seventy-two precent of the
respondents showed interest to join in. Moreover, the willing-
ness significantly increased as the incentives, such as storage
payment, price information, storage place, and storage loan
were provided. Rice-growing confidence, experience, rice-
reserving habit, production scale, homeland attachment, and
self-cognition represented the most influential factors. All of
them possessed positive effects with the exception of homeland
attachment and self-cognition. Finally, the path analysis
results confirmed the intervening role of rice- growing
confidence with regard to the causal relationships among
subjects'' experience, rice-reserving habit, self-cognition, and
willingness to join FOR.
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