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Exploring the Factors Affecting Farmers’ Willingness to Cultivate Eco-Agriculture in the Qilian Mountain National Park Based on an Extended TPB Model

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  • Mengtian Zhang

    (School of Economics, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China
    School of Accounting, Lanzhou University of Finance and Economics, Lanzhou 730000, China)

  • Huiling Wang

    (School of Economics, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China)

Abstract

Despite many governments having actively promoted the importance of developing ecological agriculture, the participation rate of farmers remains relatively low. Therefore, exploring the factors that influence farmers to participate in agroecological cultivation is important. Here, our aim was to identify the intention to participate in eco-agriculture through an extended theory of the planned behavior model. We collected 409 samples using a systematic probability proportional sampling method in Tianzhu County, located in the Gansu section of the Qilian Mountain National Park, China. The results validated that farmers’ attitudes, perceived behavioral control, and subjective norms positively influenced their intention to participate in agroecology. The extended model introduces ecological value variables; if perceived behavioral control influences willingness to participate through the mediating variable of attitude, ecological values moderate the mediating role of attitude. Agroecological development in national parks should be promoted by strengthening agroecological communication and increasing environmental awareness among farmers. Our study expands the theoretical model of planned behavior, which can help policymakers better understand the factors that influence farmers’ participation in agroecological farming. It can also serve as a reference for the ecological development of agriculture in other protected areas.

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  • Mengtian Zhang & Huiling Wang, 2024. "Exploring the Factors Affecting Farmers’ Willingness to Cultivate Eco-Agriculture in the Qilian Mountain National Park Based on an Extended TPB Model," Land, MDPI, vol. 13(3), pages 1-24, March.
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