ORIGINAL RESEARCH
Game Equilibrium between Market and
Government for Biopesticide Extension
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College of Economics & Management, Hubei University of Education, Wuhan, China
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School of Law and Business, Wuhan Institute of Technology, Wuhan, China
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Rural Sustainable Development Research Center, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China
Submission date: 2024-09-21
Final revision date: 2024-11-09
Acceptance date: 2024-11-20
Online publication date: 2025-03-10
Corresponding author
Yanzhong Huang
School of Law and Business, Wuhan Institute of Technology, Wuhan, China
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ABSTRACT
Few studies have focused on the decisions of biopesticide extension agents, such as government
agricultural extension agents (GAEAs) and market agricultural extension agents (MAEAs). This
paper uses evolutionary game theory to construct a multi-agent biopesticide extension system
model, and Matlab software is used for simulation experiments. The results show that the decisions
between biopesticide extenders and adopters influence each other. The higher the initial probability
of extending biopesticide in GAEA and MAEA, the faster farmers adopt biopesticide. Increasing
financial funding, policy target constraints, and performance appraisal can effectively motivate GAEA
to extend biopesticides. Increasing subsidies can effectively motivate MAEA to extend biopesticides.
Improving farmers’ food security and environmental utilities also contributes to biopesticide extension.
The findings of these simulations could provide theoretical support for the formulation of biopesticide
extension policies in China.