A Study on the Influence of Digital Literacy on Small Farmers’ Integration into Modern Agriculture: Based on a Survey of 1592 Small Farmersin 9 Provinces and Autonomous Regions of the Yellow River Basin
A Study on the Influence of Digital Literacy on Small Farmers’ Integration into Modern Agriculture: Based on a Survey of 1592 Small Farmersin 9 Provinces and Autonomous Regions of the Yellow River Basin
YANG Yuzhen, ZHANG Xueke
Business School, Henan Normal University, Xinxiang 453007, China
Abstract Based on the survey data of 1,592 small farmers in 9 provinces of the Yellow River Basin, this paper uses LPM and Probit model to analyze the impact of digital literacy on the connection between small farmers and modern agriculture. The result show that improving the level of digital literacy can promote small farmers to connect with modern agriculture. Mechanism analysis indicates that digital literacy can influence small farmers to connect with modern agriculture by improving agricultural information acquisition channels and then influence the ability of small farmers to obtain information. With the introduction of ESRM model and counterfactual inference analysis, it is found that the improvement of digital literacy can improve the level of small farmers connecting with modern agriculture by 45.33%. The digital literacy of small farmers has a positive spatial spillover effect on the behavior of geographically adjacent farmers connecting with modern agriculture. Heterogeneity test found that digital literacy has the greatest impact on the connection of modern agriculture is pure small farmers, followed by part-time small farmers. And the impact on low-and middle-income small farmers is greater than thigh-income small farmers. On the basis of this conclusion, the paper proposes that we should strengthen digital training for small farmers, improve their digital literacy, provide targeted assistance to different types of small farmers, and promote the connection between neighboring small farmers and modern agriculture through demonstration effects.
YANG Yuzhen,ZHANG Xueke. A Study on the Influence of Digital Literacy on Small Farmers’ Integration into Modern Agriculture: Based on a Survey of 1592 Small Farmersin 9 Provinces and Autonomous Regions of the Yellow River Basin. Economic Survey, 2024, 41(3): 042.
2024, Vol. 41 
