Are Spatial Factors Important in the Adoption of Eco-Friendly Agricultural Technologies? Evidence on Integrated Pest Management (IPM)

Abstract

Past studies on the adoption of integrated pest management (IPM), analyzed the significance of non-spatial factors (social, economic, institutional and management factors etc.) in influencing farmers' decision to adopt IPM while the present study analyzed spatial factors in addition to these non-spatial factors to address the questions-i. Do the spatial factors significantly influence the farmers to adopt IPM? If yes, then to what extent they do affect IPM adoption? The data were collected from 331 vegetable farmers of Narsingdi district, Bangladesh, by conducting a household survey. Farmers' nineteen characteristics under five broad groups, namely social, economic, institutional, management and spatial factors were analyzed. The result of the binary logistic regression model revealed that two spatial factors namely the distance of farmers' house from the nearest market and the distance from agriculture office, along with some specific social, economic, institutional and management factors, significantly influenced the farmers' to use IPM. It is also observed from the model that the role of spatial factors was important in influencing IPM adoption. However, with regard to the level of importance, their contribution was less than those of economic and institutional factors but more than those of social and management factors. The influences of these factors in practicing IPM are discussed individually as well as group based. The findings show significance in domestic policy making.

Impacts of the use of biological pest control on the technical efficiency of the Brazilian agricultural sector

“…In short, the effectiveness of biological control, as well as of integrated pest management (IPM), is the result of the adequacy of recommendations, institutional guidelines, and technical elements to the ecological and socioeconomic circumstances of those involved (Maumbe et al 2003 ; Kabir et al 2017 ; Zhang et al 2018a ; Gao et al 2019 ). Therefore, for a successful biological control, it is important to consider the multiple aspects inherent to adopters, institutional support, and soil and climate conditions, as well as which crops are grown on-site.…”

“…Anyway, this result may indicate that rural credit needs to be accompanied by technical assistance that gives farmers support for the adoption of biological pest control techniques. As reported by Kabir et al (2017), institutional support, through credit and technical guidance, is an important incentive for farmers to adopt more environment-friendly practices.…”

Determination of Influencing Factors for Integrated Pest Management Adoption: A Logistic Regression Analysis

“…Moreover, for policy development, it is important to consider all significant factors that can influence IPM adoption. A recent study conducted by Kabir et al [22], report that FFS has significant effect on IPM farming. However, we do not get any evidence of significance of FFS.…”

Problem assessment: a case study of catfish culture in Mymensingh district, Bangladesh

“…The sign of the co-efficient indicates that higher the training lower the problem face by the farmers in cat fish culture. Kabir and Rainis (2017) mentioned that training program is important to adopt environment friendly agricultural practices. Training helps farmers to gather more knowledge on catfish culture which ultimately helps farmers to reduce their problems faced in catfish culture.…”