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Analysis on agricultrual information demand

Case of Jilin province

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With the rapid development of agricultural informalization in the world, the demand of agricultural information has been a focus in the international agriculture and information fields. Based on the investigation, this paper presented the four characteristics of the demand of agricultural information in China, including regionality, seasonality, great potential demand and variation in kind and level. The factors influencing the demand of agricultural information were analyzed by the Optimized Less Square (OLS) method. The result shows that, of all factors influcing agricultural information demand, the most important one is economy, the second is facility of information pass, and knowledge and education of user, credit of agricultural information service system and production situation follow. Taking Jilin Province as an example, this article also elaborated the agricultural information demand status, and deduced the regression model of agricultural information demand and verified it by the survey in rural Jilin.

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  1. Northeast Institute of Geography and Agricultural Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 130012, Changchun, P. R. China

    Zhang Hui-min

  2. Managerial College, Jilin Agricultural University, 130118, Changchun, P. R. China

    Jiang Hui-ming

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Foundation item: Under the auspices of the Key Innovation Project Engineering of CAS (KZCX1-SW-19)

Biography: ZHANG Hui-min (1977–), female, a native of Liaoyuan of Jilin Province, master, specialized in human geography. E-mail: hmzhang@neigae.ac.cn

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Zhang, Hm., Jiang, Hm. Analysis on agricultrual information demand. Chin. Geograph.Sc. 15, 281–287 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11769-005-0042-6

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