Acta Agriculturae Zhejiangensis ›› 2020, Vol. 32 ›› Issue (12): 2261-2270.DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1004-1524.2020.12.18

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Impact of rural-household differentiation on cultivated land protection behavior based on intermediary effect

CHEN Yinrong(), WANG Xiaomei   

  1. College of Public Administration, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China
  • Received:2020-07-03 Online:2020-12-25 Published:2020-12-25

Abstract:

Clarifying the behavior logic of farmers participating in cultivated land protection is of great significance to improving the quality of cultivated land and increasing the area of effective cultivated land. Based on 483 questionnaires in Wuhan urban circle, by taking cultivated land value cognition as an intermediary variable, the mediating effect model was used to explore the specific mechanism of rural-household differentiation on cultivated land protection behavior. The results showed that the impact of rural-household differentiation on cultivated land protection behavior could be achieved by acting on the intermediary variable of cultivated land value cognition. At a higher level of cultivated land value cognition, the negative effect of rural household differentiation on cultivated land protection behavior would be weakened. The increase in income from non-farm employment would increase the possibility of labor force being replaced by capital, so the negative effect of rural-household differentiation on labor-biased protection behavior was greater than that on capital-biased protection behavior. Therefore, it was necessary to vigorously promote capital-biased cultivated land protection measures and increase the propaganda of the multi-functional value of cultivated land.

Key words: cultivated land protection, rural-household differentiation, cultivated land value cognition, labor-biased, capital-biased

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