The Perception and Adoption of Aborigine People to Slope Land Nature Farming Technology - An Investegation of Three Villages in Pingtung County

• Main Authors: Tzuhn-Chi Chen, 陳俊吉
• Other Authors: Kai-An Lo
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2005
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/64858059305380069213

碩士 === 國立屏東科技大學 === 森林系 === 93 === Taiwan has a relatively short history in the development of sustainable agriculture at slope land. The practices of sustainable agriculture are effective method to revamping the ecological problems that were caused by conventional farming systems. As cognition is a critical step in the adoption of an innovation, finding out factors that affect farmers’ cognition of sustainable agriculture will be useful in the promotion and education of the topic. This study approaches the issue from aborigine farmers’ background, information communication factors and economic factors to investigate how these factors affect their consciousness of environmental problems, their cognition of sustainable agriculture and how these factors are mutually related. In order to inquiring the influence factors of the cognition of nature farming, 116 farmers are interviewed at random. The research results indicate －all the sample farmers agree with the cognition of the environment in slope land, and the amount of working member of farms is the most important factors. However, samples disagree with the technical of nature farming, and the education level is the main influence source. Among samples, 70 % of the sample farmers attend the farmers’ organizations. The mostly contacted media is problems of agriculture extension source. The group meetings and training courses are the most popular group activities. The elder farmers are more likely to adopt the nature farming in the future, but the younger farmers are more likely reluctant to give up conventing farming techniques. In short, to increase the willingness of the younger farmers’ adoption of nature farming, the educational training courses and lectures are good methodologies for the youth. By means of enhancing their interest, and having real practice, it’s helpful for the government and folk group to extend the technical of the nature farming in the slope land in our country.