数字素养何以影响农户有机农业采纳?来自湘西重点生态功能区的证据

How does digital literacy affect farmers’ organic agriculture adoption? Evidence from the key ecological functional area of western Hunan Province

  • 摘要: 数字赋能农户转型发展有机农业是实现农业绿色化、数字化协同发展的重要抓手。基于数字素养理论和技术采用理论, 利用湖南湘西重点生态功能区4县的农户调研数据, 基于扩展的整合型技术接受和使用理论(UTAUT)模型, 构建结构方程模型, 分析数字素养对农户有机农业采纳行为的影响。结果表明: 1)绩效期望对农户有机农业采纳行为的影响最大, 但数字通用素养、数字应用素养和数字创新素养对农户有机农业采纳十分关键, 影响效应与农户对绩效期望的考量相当, 且数字通用素养与数字应用素养的直接影响显著大于间接影响, 而数字创新素养的间接效应更为显著。2)数字素养对不同规模农户有机农业采纳的影响存在异质性, 数字创新素养和数字应用素养对规模农户有机农业采纳行为的影响更显著, 且数字创新素养对不同规模农户有机农业采纳行为影响的异质性更为突出。此外, 农业经验对数字素养与农户有机农业采纳行为间的关系具有显著的调节效应。基于此, 本文提出通过改善农业数字化环境、提高农户数字素养和制定差异化推广方案等措施, 强化数字素养对农户有机农业采纳的直接和间接作用路径, 提升数字赋能农户转型有机农业的效应。

     

    Abstract: Digitally empowering farmers to adopt organic agriculture technology is an important measure for realizing green and digital synergy in agriculture. Based on the digital literacy and technology adoption theory, this study analyzed the impact of farmers’ digital literacy on their organic agriculture technology adoption by constructing a structural equation model based on the extended unified theory of acceptance and use of technology, using survey data of rural households from four counties in the key ecological functional area of western Hunan Province. The results showed that: 1) performance expectancy had the greatest impact on farmers’ organic agricultural technology adoption, with a total effect of 0.254. Digital general literacy, digital application literacy, and digital innovation literacy played a crucial role in farmers’ adoption of organic agriculture technology, with their impact being comparable to that of performance expectations, and their total effects were 0.210, 0.234, and 0.238, respectively. Moreover, the direct impact of digital general literacy and digital application literacy was greater than its indirect impact. 2) There was heterogeneity in the effects of digital literacy on the organic agriculture technology adoption of farmers with different scales. The effects of digital innovation literacy and digital application literacy on the organic agriculture technology adoption of large-scale farmers were more obvious, and the heterogeneity of the effects of digital innovation literacy on the organic agriculture technology adoption behavior of the two groups of farmers was more prominent. Agricultural experience had a significant moderating effect on the relationship between digital literacy and farmers’ adoption of organic agriculture technology. Thus, we proposed policy suggestions of accelerating the construction of digital infrastructure, popularizing the cultivation of digital literacy among farmers, increasing the publicity and promotion of organic agriculture technology, and appropriately tilting the policy toward small-scale and inexperienced farmers. The contributions of this paper are primarily reflected in two aspects: drawing on the technology adoption model and digital literacy theory, and analyzing the driving forces behind farmers’ adoption of organic agriculture technology across dimensions. Additionally, a structural equation model was employed to simultaneously examine the multi-causal, direct, and indirect effects of these factors.

     

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