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Journal of Agriculture ›› 2015, Vol. 5 ›› Issue (2): 131-136.doi: 10.11923/j.issn.2095-4050.2014-xb0420

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Research in the Promotion Mode of Water Saving Irrigation Technology under the Background of Agricultural Feminization—A Case Study of Wuwei City, Gansu Province

  

  • Received:2014-04-21 Revised:2014-04-21 Accepted:2014-10-14 Online:2015-03-11 Published:2015-03-11

Abstract: China is a country with a shortage of water resources, where agricultural production consumes a large amount of water. Therefore, it is imperative to develop water-saving agriculture. In recent years, women have become the main body of agricultural production in rural areas because of the enormous outflow of rural male labor. This brought certain difficulties to the extension of water- saving irrigation technology. The initiative of adopting water-saving irrigation technology of the rural female in Wuwei City, Gansu Province has been promoted effectively, their water saving awareness has been improved, and a new set of relatively complete promotion model of water- saving irrigation technology under the background of agricultural feminization has been founded through disseminating water-saving irrigation technology, using the farmer field school as a platform and combined with the technology research and development and promotion department.