| Innovation has become a core variable in the mainstream economy,and innovation in the country are mainly done by farmers, however, the concept of farmer innovation has not got the clear limits so far. On the basis of reviewing the literatures of farmer innovation, this paper pionted that farmer innovation is a process, in which farmers reorganize production factors and then make changes in technology, market and organization to get economic benefit and change their traditional lifestyle depending on their own capacity and resource. Through analyzing the intension and extension of the concept, this paper preliminarily developed a measurement index system composed of technology innovation index, market innovation index and organizational innovation index. |
