Farmers' Willingness to Participate in Agricultural Cooperative Organizations in Major Grain Producing Areas——A Case of Jiangxi Province
基于江西省289户农户调查,发现仅30.8%愿意加入农业合作社,户主年龄、教育程度、风险偏好、种植面积、交易信息获取、交易流程和农业技术培训显著影响其意愿。
Participating in agricultural cooperative organizations can help farmers to reduce blindness to some extent,to improve the organizing and schematization of their production and business operation activities,then to strengthen their capability to counter the market risk.Based on 289 farmers in Jiangxi Province,this article empirically analyzed farmers' willingness to join agricultural cooperatives in major grain producing areas,with a result showing that 30.8% of farmers willing to join agricultural cooperatives,factors that significantly influence farmers' willingness including the householder's age,education degree and preference to risks,as well as family planting area,access to transaction information,transaction process and agriculture technology training.