Abstract:
It is of great significance for promoting agricultural technology adoption by grain farmers to examine the factors influencing the technology adoption choices by grain farmers. Based on the survey data of 568 grain farmers in Liaoning, China and applying a binary Logistic model, this paper analyzed the factors influencing grain farmers’ willingness to adopt the resource-saving and environment-friendly technologies. Result shows that 1) the age of household head, serving as a village official or not, the degree of the decentralization of land, off-farm employment opportunities, family labor migration, the access to technology, and the extension service have significant positive impacts on farmers’ choice for modern agricultural water-saving irrigation technologies; 2) the age of household head, serving as a village official or not, participation in trainings, the degree of the decentralization of land, the access to technology, and the extension service have significant positive impacts on farmers’ choice for the technologies of precision fertilizer application; 3) the education level, the access to technology, and the extension service have significant positive influences on farmers’ choice for returning plant ruminants to the soil technologies; 4) participation in trainings, the education level, production scales, the off-farm employment opportunities, the access to technologies, extension services, and social services have significant impacts on farmers’ choice for the no-tilt planting technologies; 5) the age of household head, participation in trainings, annual income, the off-farm employment opportunities, and social service have significant impacts on farmers’ choice for the precision planting technologies; and 6) serving as a village official or not, the education level, production scales, the off-farm employment opportunities, and social services have significant influence on farmers’ choice for the mechanical harvesting technologies. Based on the above analysis, the paper proposed some policy recommendations, including to enhance the technical trainings for farmers and to increase the collaborations among different technology providers to increase the adoption rate of “the Two-Oriented Agriculture” technologies.