Abstract
To guarantee the pork quality and safety and the steady development of the pig-breeding industry in China, it is important to control veterinary drugs usage in the pig farming sector. In order to develop an effective intervention that control veterinary drug usage, it is important to perform an in-depth analysis of those factors that can affect the standardized use of veterinary drugs in the pig-breeding process. In this paper, hierarchical regression analysis is used to examine how perceived risk, expected benefits, and self-efficacy influence on the standardized use of veterinary drugs. Data were collected using a multi-stage sampling method from four provinces in China. The results show that expected benefit and self-efficacy have positive impacts on the standardized use of veterinary drugs. Self-efficacy significantly moderated the positive relationships between expected benefits and the negative relationships between perceived risk and standardized use of veterinary drugs.
Highlights
The pig-breeding industry plays a significant role in China’s animal husbandry industry
In order to develop an effective intervention that controls veterinary drugs usage, it is important to perform an in-depth analysis of those factors that can affect the standardized use of veterinary drugs in the pig-breeding process from the perspective of agricultural producers
The results show that expected benefits have a positive influence on agricultural producers’ standardized use of veterinary drugs
Summary
The pig-breeding industry plays a significant role in China’s animal husbandry industry. In 2015, China’s animal husbandry achieved a total output value of 2.99 trillion yuan, and the pig-breeding industry had an output value of 1.2 trillion yuan, 40% of the total output value [1]. As more production input factors are involved in the pig-breeding process, pig farming has become increasingly a scale-dependent operation, and the pig-breeding density increases. In this context, pig diseases are more and more complicated, hidden, and non-typical, and pose a growing risk, so that the prevention and control of diseases-related risks have become increasingly critical [3]
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