The effect of social support on farmers’ cultivated land quality protection behavior: Based on the survey in Hubei Province
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Abstract
During the critical period of the green transformation of agriculture, dividing social support into two dimensions: material support and emotional support, and exploring the impact of social support on the cultivated land quality protection behavior of farmers, is of great significance for promoting the coordinated development of the rural revitalization strategy and the construction of agricultural ecological civilization. Based on the survey data of 945 farmers in Hubei Province, this study empirically examines the influence and mechanism of social support on the cultivated land quality protection behavior of farmers using the Probit model, the mediating effect model, and the moderating effect model. The research results showed that:1) Both material support and emotional support could promote the cultivated land quality protection behavior of farmers, and compared with material support, emotional support had a more significant impact on the cultivated land quality protection behavior of farmers. 2) The impacts of material support and emotional support on the cultivated land quality protection behavior of farmers varied among farmers with different capital endowments. Compared with elderly farmers and low-income households, material support and emotional support had a more obvious promoting effect on the behaviors of young farmers and high-income households in protecting the quality of cultivated land. 3) Both material support and emotional support could promote farmers’ participation in the protection of cultivated land quality through the path of improving information capability, and the proportions of the mediating effect in the total effect were 0.039 and 0.028 respectively. 4) Constraining environmental regulations could significantly enhance the promoting effect of material support and emotional support on farmers’ participation in the protection of cultivated land quality, while the effect of incentive environmental regulations is not significant. Based on this, cultivating a dual-pronged material support and emotional support model, establishing an information system service platform, improving the environmental regulation system, and reasonably implementing differentiated policies based on farmers’ capital endowments are important measures to promote the precise protection of cultivated land quality and the realization of the goal of agricultural green transformation.
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