Farmer's Adoption of Neem as an Organic Pesticide in Nagpur, India : A Case Study of "The Neem Foundation" Activities
Farmer's Adoption of Neem as an Organic Pesticide in Nagpur, India : A Case Study of "The Neem Foundation" Activities
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印度那格浦尔农民采用印楝作为有机农药：“印楝基金会”活动案例研究
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10.7310/arfe1965.43.252
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2007
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J. Kaneko
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A. Joshi;J. Kaneko
1. 背景和目的本文旨在分析参加印楝基金会（NF）活动并在商业田间条件下使用自制印楝农药（HNP）和普通化学农药的农民收集的数据。本研究探讨了农民对印楝农药的接受程度与其社会经济地位之间的关系。 Sharma [4]认为，一般有机农药的制作过程耗时且复杂，这是农民不愿意采用的主要原因。然而，之前的研究都没有关注印楝农药或社会经济因素。我们分析了农民对印楝作为有机农药的接受程度，并评估了农民受教育程度、年收入等因素的影响。人们越来越关心他们吃的食物。许多人越来越支持环保、可持续和健康的食品。不断增长的国际有机农业市场需要不含合成农药的优质产品。不仅在国际上，而且在印度国内，有机商品市场预计在未来几年将会增长[2]。印楝树在印度广泛生长，其产物可用作环保农药。尽管印度农民在使用印楝果实和叶子作为农药方面已有数十年的经验，但“绿色革命”的出现推动了其与合成农药竞争的应用。因此，印楝树具有巨大的潜力，可以将全球有机产品市场的一些果实带给印度的农民。然而，即使在印度政府和工发组织花费 70 万美元来传播
1. Background and purpose This paper aims to analyze data collected from farmers who participated in The Neem Foundation (NF) activities and used homemade Neem pesticides (HNP) and normal chemical pesticides under commercial field conditions. This study examines the relationships between farmers' acceptance of Neem pesticide and their socioeconomic status. According to Sharma [4], the process to make a general organic pesticide is time consuming and complicated, and this is the main reason why farmers do not want to adopt it. However, none of the previous research focuses on Neem pesticides or socioeconomic factors. We analyze the farmers' acceptance of Neem as an organic pesticide, and assess the impact of farmers' education level, annual income, and other factors. People are becoming more concerned about the food they eat. Many people are increasingly in support of food that is environmentally friendly,sustainable and healthy. The growing international market for organic agriculture requires quality products that are free of synthetic pesticides. Not only internationally, but also at the domestic level in India, the market for organic goods is expected to rise in the coming years [2]. The products of the Neem tree, which grows wildly and abundantly in India, can be utilized as an environmentally friendly pesticide. Even though Indian farmers have decades of experience in using Neem fruits and leaves as pesticides, the emergence of the "Green revolution" promoted its application in competition with synthetic pesticides. The Neem tree therefore has tremendous potential to bring some of the fruits of the global market for organic products to rural farmers in India. Yet even after the Government of India and UNIDO spent US $700,000 to spread the