FEATURE, FUNCTION AND DEVELOPMENT SUGGESTION OF FARMER INTERACTION NETWORK
Xiaojian Li · Economic Geography · 2010
Farmer interaction network is an important content in the study of rural development.Farmer interaction network has some common features such as embeddedness,multifunction,dynamics and inheritance.According to the characteristics of network structure,it can be divided into three types of network: the republican type,hub-and-spoke type and core-periphery type.From the perspective of function,it has many functions including resource allocation,division of cooperation,technology innovation and technology diffusion.At different stages of development,a kind of economic function has the dominant position.Based on the above discussion,this paper suggests that network development should begin with cultivating entrepreneurial spirit of farmer,strengthening the construction of hardware and soft environment,increasing moderately network heterogeneity and diversity,supporting the establishment of farmer cooperative organization,increasing the support of isolated peasant and exerting the function of various types of actors.