An Assessing Analysis of Factors Influencing the Adoption of Agricultural Technology for Farmers in China

Abstract

Agricultural technology application is one of the most important strategy to promote agricultural development. With the rapid development of global social and economic level, a series of novel technologies have been applied in agricultural production. However, up to now, the adoption of these agricultural technologies for farmers was not satisfactory due to the influences of various reasons. Therefore, In this work, rice farmers behavior were investigated on their new varieties adoption in the main rice producing areas in Heilongjiang province. The adoption information and key factors of farmers for agricultural were analyzed. More importantly, the analysis of influencing factors and its solutions for farmers’ technology adoption was carried out to further strengthen the promotion performance and improve the adoption behavior of farmers.