Biogas Investment Intention of Large-Scale Pig Farmers Under the EmissionTrading System

Abstract

Based on the field research data of 424 large-scale pig farmers in Zhejiang Province, this paper takes the biogas fermentation as the main adoption behaviour of pollution treatment, and make the quantitative analysis on the biogas investment intention and its influencing factors on large-scale pig farmers under the emission trading system. The research shows that the emission trading system can encourage large-scale pig farmers to adopt biogas fermentation to deal with pollution and make environmental protection investment for waste resources utilization, which mainly depends on the pig breeding scale, the biogas digesters purchased or not, the benefit evaluation of biogas fermentation and the biogas fermentation technology service existed or not, rather than environmental awareness. Therefore, it is feasible to introduce the emission trading system into the agricultural non-point source pollution control with pig breeding pollution as the typical example. For the pig breeding industry, emission trading can be transformed from the traditional redistribution of environmental capacity to the redistribution of production scale.

Keywords

• emission trading system, large-scale pig farmers, biogas investment intention, pollution treatment