Author(s)

Chun Yang ¹, Linben Wang ¹, Shufeng Zhou ²

Affiliation(s)

¹ College of Management, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, China
² Maize Research Institute, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, China

Corresponding Author

Shufeng Zhou

ABSTRACT

With the implementation of China's rural revitalization strategy, the reserve of high-quality agricultural talents has become an important part of agriculture. Continuing education of agricultural engineering and technical talents, as a channel to continuously cultivate outstanding talents, provides strong support for rural revitalization. This paper takes agricultural engineering and technical talents in five provinces of southwest China as the research objects, collects data in the form of questionnaire survey, and uses Logistic and Ordered Probit models to analyze the influencing factors of whether agricultural engineering and technical talents participate in continuing education and the influencing factors of their participation in continuing education. The results show that the behavioral direction and participation degree of agricultural talents in continuing education are mainly affected by the incentive mechanism, external educational safeguard measures and conditions, and to a certain extent are also affected by environmental variables. Therefore, in order to further promote the continuing education of agricultural engineering and technical talents, we should improve the relevant legal system, improve the relevant incentive mechanism and assessment system, and optimize the macro learning environment.

KEYWORDS

Agricultural engineering talents, continuing education, participation behavior, influencing factors

CITE THIS PAPER

Chun Yang, Linben Wang, Shufeng Zhou, A Study on Influencing Factors of Participation Behavior of Chinese Agricultural Engineering and Technical Personnel in Continuing Education in the New Era. Adult and Higher Education (2023) Vol. 5: 102-113. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/aduhe.2023.050115.

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