study on the adoption of organic materials and technology by vegetable farmer in Nan-Tou country

• Main Authors: Pai -Neng Chuang, 莊伯能
• Other Authors: Ching-Ying Huang
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2001
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/01188724230962586370

碩士 === 國立中興大學 === 農業推廣教育研究所 === 89 === The problem of long time using conventional farming system needed to be solved by the adoption the organic materials and technologies. It’s worth to discuss the situation of adopting organic materials and technology as well as the factors affecting it. The study used frequency、percentage、mean、multiple-regression to analyze situations of the age、education level、the farming scale、the source of message、the view of cost、self-protection、the preview of market、the consciousness of environmental protection, and the causal relationship of 140 farmers of vegetable production and marketing groups in “Nan-Tou” county. The results showed that fewer farmer adopted organic materials and technologies in fertilizer management、pest and weed control、and using microbial materials. Eleven out of 21 pure-organic materials and technologies, and 7out of 9 under organic materials and technologies are less than 50﹪adoption. The results from multiple-regression showed that the farming scale has positive effect on the consciousness of environmental protection. The farming scale, the preview of market and consciousness of environmental protection in order had significant positive, while the age and education level had negative effect on adopting organic materials and technologies. Therefore, It is suggest that extension agencies should aim at the above too lower used items to extend. And the farmers who are younger, with larger farming scale, higher environmental protection consciousness and good preview of market should be chosen for organic cultivation training.