Factors Influencing Wheat Producer's Willingness to Participate in Green Subsidy Program to Adopt and Use of Soil Conservation Practices (Case Study of Khorasan Razavi Province)

مجله اقتصاد و توسعه کشاورزی

Article 8, Volume 24, Issue 1, April 2010   

Document Type: Research Article

DOI: 10.22067/jead2.v1389i1.3492

Authors

M. Ghorbani^* ; M.R. Kohansal

Agricultural Economics. College, of Agriculture, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad

Abstract

Abstract
This paper surveyed factors influencing farmers willingness to participate in green subsidy program for adopting and continuing on soil conservation practices using a cross sectional data of 175 rain-fed wheat producers of Khorasan Razavi province and logit model. Results showed that household's income, slope of land, required credit for soil conservation at farm level, farmers' awareness of effects of soil conservation and sloped cultivated land to total cultivated lands ratio have positive effect and soil conservation experience has negative effect on probability of farmers' participation in green subsidy program of soil conservation practices. Based on results, awareness about the effects of soil conservation, conducting the program towards small farmers through long-run repayment and gratuitous helps, initial targeting to lands with higher slope, attempt to increase farmers' revenue through supplementary activities so as create incentive for receiving soil conservation subsidy credit and serious attention to required credit for soil conservation at farm level suggested.

Keywords

Soil erosion; Extension services; Conservation policy; Logit model

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