Studies on Farmer Households' Requirement for Maize Seed Technology and Channels Access to Information

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1 Journal of Agricultural Science and Technology doi /j. issn F3 S513 A Studies on Farmer Households' Requirement for Maize Seed Technology and Channels Access to Information GUO Shu-jing LI Lu-ping XU Zhi-gang Center for Chinese Agricultural Policy Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing China Abstract In China the pressure for maize domestic supply and self-sufficiency is increasing continuously but the maize yield per unit area increases very slowly. It is of great significance to understand farmer households' preferences for maize seed technology and channels access to information so as to guide famers to choose maize seed rationally improve technology extension pattern promote breeding of new varieties and improve the level of maize production in China. In order to fully understand farmer households' demand for new seed technology their purchasing behaviors and the existing problems based on a survey dataset from 640 farmer households in Heilongjiang Jilin He'nan and Shandong Provinces this paper systematically analyzes farmer households' requirement for maize variety technology channels access to sources of technical information and problems facing farmer households when they are purchasing maize seed so as to provide reference for new maize variety breeding and technology extension in the near future. Key words maize seed characteristics technology requirements information channel purchasing seed 38% 64% 42% 10% 24% kg /hm % % 8% 21% 35 kg /hm kg /hm nycytx-02 08&ZD BADA8B BADA8B02 guosj. 09s@ igsnrr. ac. cn zgxu. ccap@ igsnrr. ac. cn

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3 20 14 Table 1 1 Characteristic of varieties that farmers mostly concerned when purchasing maize seed. Characteristic of varieties All farmers Heilongjiang % Ratio % Jilin Shandong He'nan Production Lodging resistance Quality Disease resistance Maturity Stress resistance Tightness resistance Price of seed Other Vacancy value % % 31% 20% 42% Table 2 2 Farmers' requirement for growth period and density of maize. % Proportion % Early Middle Late Unknown Total maturing maturing maturing /hm 2 Density plant /hm 2 Mean Min Max All farmers Heilongjiang Jilin Shandong He'nan

4 /hm /hm /hm /hm kg 26% 26% 15% 4 11% % 89% 86% 4 47% 37% 13% Table 3 3 Farmers' attention on packaging and its content when they buying seeds. All farmers Heilongjiang % Proportion % Jilin Shandong He'nan No Whether farmers concerned Yes about packaging Total Introduction Brand Anti-counterfeiting Quality Quantity The content farmers focused on packaging Manufacturers Authorization Other Total

5 22 14 Channels in categories 4 Table 4 % Channels ratio % that farmers access to information. Channels in detail Vendor recommend Heilongjiang Jilin Shandong He'nan All farmers Subtotal Commercial media Television and Broadcasting Newspaper and leaflets Villagers who planted recommend Spontaneous Other villagers recommend communication See other villagers planting Agricultural station recommend Grass-root technology promotion Village committee recommend Others Total % 11% 54% 14% 5 38% 34% 24% 35% 7% 11% 13% 16% 16% Table 5 5 Problems farmers facing when they buying seeds. % Proportion % Difficult to distinguish Afraid to buy fake seeds Few good varieties High price No problem Other Total All farmers Heilongjiang Jilin Shandong He'nan

6 Table 6 Influence of fake seeds and false brand on farmers. % 10 % Thought of farmers about false brand % Whether farmers bought fake seeds in recent 10 years % Serious General Not serious Unknown Total Never bought fake seeds Bought fake seeds Total All farmers Heilongjiang Jilin Shandong He'nan % 18% 10% M National Bureau of Statistics. China Statistical Yearbook J 2010 Econ. Manage Badstue L B Bellon M R Berthaud J M. Beijing China Statistics Press Huang J K Xu Z G Hu R F et al.. China's seed industry achievement problems and development strategies J. Agric. The dynamics of farmers'maize seed supply practices in the central valleys of Oaxaca J. World Dev J Meng X F Rao J Ye J Z. Factors affecting farmers' decision-

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