Abstract
Under the background of relatively slow agricultural labor transfer and land circulation, agricultural production outsourcing has become the main means of agricultural modernization. In order to provide a beneficial perspective for appropriately expanding the scale of rice control outsourcing services, we investigated the situation of rice control outsourcing in ten counties of Fujian Province, and analyzed the factors influencing rice farmers' decision-making and control degree by using Heckman model. First of all, the main factors affecting farmers' participation in outsourcing are agricultural labor force, whether family members are cooperative members, planting area, proportion of grain income, degree of organization of outsourcing team, region and so on. Secondly, agricultural labor force, cooperative members, planting area, part-time behavior, mechanical efficiency of prevention and control organization, and region are the main factors affecting the scale of control outsourcing. Thirdly, from a regional perspective, the rice farmers in northern and Western Fujian are more dependent on outsourcing services consumption compared with the rice farmers in Southern Fujian. These results have a clear impact on policymakers, indicating that policy and measures should encourage the prevention and control of the nature of cooperation, and improve the advanced nature of outsourcing facilities of plant protection equipment, thereby effectively improving the professional level of rice pest and disease control.
Highlights
On the basis of the existing research results and field research, this paper considers that the selection and scale of outsourcing service of rice pest and disease control mainly depend on the characteristics of householder, family characteristics, production and management characteristics, outsourcing services and external environment variables, which are further subdivided into 13 indicators (Table 2)
Due to the differences in the publicity and administrative measures of promoting social prevention and control services in different regions, regional dummy variables are set to compare the participation of different regions in outsourcing service of rice pest and disease control According to the setting of explanatory variables, the definition and descriptive statistics of explanatory variables are given (Table 2)
The rice farmers in northern and Western Fujian are more dependent on the outsourcing service mode, which is conducive to the formation of division of labor and specialization of outsourcing service of rice pest and disease control
Summary
Expanding outsourcing means that agricultural development will break through the rigid thinking field of realizing scale operation only relying on the aggregation of agricultural land property rights, and realize the scale operation of prevention and control services through the aggregation of field management, so that farmers can participate in agricultural transactions and share the economy of division of labor. This is an important exploration to change the mode of agricultural production, to meet the demand of full flow of agricultural production factors and to improve agricultural labor efficiency.
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