Table4_How to Improve Farmers’ Green Production Level in a Targeted Manner?.DOCX

Improving farmers’ green production behavior can guarantee food safety at the source. In recent years, a rising number of studies have focused on food safety management and have provided general regulation recommendations. Unlike many studies, this study aimed to find targeted policy recommendations according to different spatial aggregations of non-green production behavior. In the current study, more than 800 tea farmers located in the Qinba and Huangshan Mountain regions of China were investigated. An order logit model was employed to evaluate the impact of government regulation and community governance on ignorant or unkind non-green tea production behavior. Furthermore, a multi-valued treatment effect model was also recruited to demonstrate the average treatment effect of government regulation and community governance. The results show that the difference in farmers’ ignorant or unkind non-green production behavior between regions is substantial but is similar in the same region. Farmers’ non-green production behavior is negatively impacted by community governance but not significantly affected by government regulation. Government regulation can effectively inhibit the occurrence of farmers’ unkind behavior, while community governance can effectively cause farmers’ unkind behavior. Thus, some measures to reduce local farmers’ non-green production behavior should be put forward according to the differences in the spatial distribution of non-green production behavior and the differences in the effect of government regulation and community governance.

提升农户绿色生产行为，可从源头保障食品安全。近年来，日益增多的研究聚焦于食品安全治理领域，并提出了一般性监管建议。与多数同类研究不同，本研究旨在依据非绿色生产行为的不同空间集聚特征，探寻针对性政策方案。本研究对中国秦巴山区与黄山地区的800余名茶农开展了实地调研。研究采用有序Logit（order logit）模型，评估政府监管与社区治理对茶农无意型与故意型非绿色茶叶生产行为的影响；同时引入多值处理效应（multi-valued treatment effect）模型，测算政府监管与社区治理的平均处理效应。结果显示，不同区域间农户无意型与故意型非绿色生产行为差异显著，但同一区域内此类行为的分布特征较为相似。农户非绿色生产行为会受到社区治理的负向影响，但未受到政府监管的显著影响。政府监管可有效抑制农户故意型非绿色生产行为的发生，而社区治理则会有效引发农户的故意型非绿色生产行为。据此，应结合非绿色生产行为的空间分布差异，以及政府监管与社区治理的作用效果差异，提出针对性举措以降低当地农户的非绿色生产行为。