Study on farmers’ willingness to property right adjustment in land consolidation based on expected utility theory

doi:10.3969/j.issn.1004-1524.20230525

Acta Agriculturae Zhejiangensis ›› 2024, Vol. 36 ›› Issue (6): 1436-1446.DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1004-1524.20230525

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Study on farmers’ willingness to property right adjustment in land consolidation based on expected utility theory

WU Shiman¹^,²(), MENG Shengxiang¹, LU Xinhai²^,^*(), LI Zhuofan³

1. School of Management, Wuhan Institute of Technology, Wuhan 430205, China
2. Collage of Public Administration, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China
3. Department of Earth Sciences, University College London, London WC1H0AH, U.K.

Received:2023-04-21 Online:2024-06-25 Published:2024-07-02

Abstract

Abstract:

Based on the expected utility theory, the internal mechanism of farmers’ willingness to property right adjustment in land consolidation was analyzed. Based on the questionnaire of farmers in Longzhou County, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, the Logistic model was used to analyze the effects of expected benefits and expected losses on farmers’ willingness to property right adjustment under uncertain conditions, to provide a decision-making reference for guiding farmers to respond positively to property right adjustment. It was shown that the farmers’ cognition was the basis of their willingness to support. In the study area, only about 20% of farmers had a good understanding of the property right adjustment policy. More than 80% of them passively obtained realtive information through the “top-down” approach, but close to 90% of them agreed with the policy, indicating that the implementation of the policy had a broad public opinion foundation. In terms of expected benefits, factors such as increase cultivated land area, improve agricultural infrastructure conditions, increase the utilization rate of agricultural mechanines, and enhace operation scale had significant (P<0.1 at least) positive effects on farmers’ willingness to property right adjustment. In terms of expected losses, the factors of decrease cultivated land quality and unfair distribution of cultivated land had significant (P<0.05 at least) negative effects on farmers’ willingness to property right adjustment. Accordingly, suggestions were put forward: strengthen the effective participation of farmers in the whole process of property right adjustment and effectively protect their land rights and interests; improve the legal construction and institutionalized management of property right adjustment, promote the property right adjustment to gain the support and trust of farmers; give full play to the role of property right adjustment in promoting the moderate scale operation of farmland, and promote farmers to share the dividends of modern agricultural development.

Key words: expected utility theory, property right adjustment, farmer’s willingness

CLC Number:

F301.2

WU Shiman, MENG Shengxiang, LU Xinhai, LI Zhuofan. Study on farmers’ willingness to property right adjustment in land consolidation based on expected utility theory[J]. Acta Agriculturae Zhejiangensis, 2024, 36(6): 1436-1446.

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类别 Category	项目 Item	分组 Group	样本量 Sample quantity	比例 Proportion/%
农户家庭特征	性别Gender	男Male	192	74.70
Characteristics of		女Female	65	25.30
farmer household	年龄Age	20~<30	20	7.78
		30~<40	62	24.12
		40~<50	85	33.10
		50~<60	55	21.40
		≥60	35	13.62
	受教育程度Education level	小学Primary school	96	37.35
		初中Junior high school	139	54.10
		高中Senior high school	20	7.78
		大专及以上College degree or above	2	0.77
	收入来源Income source	农业Agriculture	190	73.93
		非农Non-agricultural	67	26.07
耕地资源特征	农户耕地面积	<1	190	73.93
Characteristics of	Household area of cultivated land/hm²	1~2	46	17.90
cultivated land		>2	22	8.17
resources	耕地细碎化程度	很低Very low	8	3.11
	Degree of cultivated land fragmentation	较低Low	35	13.62
		一般General	86	33.46
		较高High	116	45.14
		很高Very high	12	4.67
	耕地质量	很低Very low	21	8.17
	Quality of cultivated land	较低Low	43	16.73
		一般General	86	33.46
		较高High	67	26.07
		很高Very high	40	15.57

类别 Category	项目 Item	分组 Group	样本量 Sample quantity	比例 Proportion/%
农户家庭特征	性别Gender	男Male	192	74.70
Characteristics of		女Female	65	25.30
farmer household	年龄Age	20~<30	20	7.78
		30~<40	62	24.12
		40~<50	85	33.10
		50~<60	55	21.40
		≥60	35	13.62
	受教育程度Education level	小学Primary school	96	37.35
		初中Junior high school	139	54.10
		高中Senior high school	20	7.78
		大专及以上College degree or above	2	0.77
	收入来源Income source	农业Agriculture	190	73.93
		非农Non-agricultural	67	26.07
耕地资源特征	农户耕地面积	<1	190	73.93
Characteristics of	Household area of cultivated land/hm²	1~2	46	17.90
cultivated land		>2	22	8.17
resources	耕地细碎化程度	很低Very low	8	3.11
	Degree of cultivated land fragmentation	较低Low	35	13.62
		一般General	86	33.46
		较高High	116	45.14
		很高Very high	12	4.67
	耕地质量	很低Very low	21	8.17
	Quality of cultivated land	较低Low	43	16.73
		一般General	86	33.46
		较高High	67	26.07
		很高Very high	40	15.57

预期收益 Expected benifit	不同认知水平的农户所占比例Proportion of farmer households with varied cognitions
预期收益 Expected benifit	非常不可能 Impossible	比较不可能 Unlikely	一般 General	比较可能 Likely	非常可能 Probably
新增耕地面积Increase cultivated land	46.30	22.70	19.20	9.80	2.00
降低农业生产成本	10.20	11.80	23.50	27.10	27.50
Decrease agriculture production cost
改善农业基础设施条件	2.70	4.70	27.80	42.40	22.40
Improve agricultural infrastructure
提高农业机械化使用率	14.90	14.90	10.60	27.80	31.80
Increase the utilization rate of agricultural mechanines
改善农田景观Improve farmland landscape	4.30	5.90	15.30	38.80	35.70
提高规模化经营程度Enhance operation scale	24.30	12.50	22.40	24.70	16.10

预期收益 Expected benifit	不同认知水平的农户所占比例Proportion of farmer households with varied cognitions
预期收益 Expected benifit	非常不可能 Impossible	比较不可能 Unlikely	一般 General	比较可能 Likely	非常可能 Probably
新增耕地面积Increase cultivated land	46.30	22.70	19.20	9.80	2.00
降低农业生产成本	10.20	11.80	23.50	27.10	27.50
Decrease agriculture production cost
改善农业基础设施条件	2.70	4.70	27.80	42.40	22.40
Improve agricultural infrastructure
提高农业机械化使用率	14.90	14.90	10.60	27.80	31.80
Increase the utilization rate of agricultural mechanines
改善农田景观Improve farmland landscape	4.30	5.90	15.30	38.80	35.70
提高规模化经营程度Enhance operation scale	24.30	12.50	22.40	24.70	16.10

预期损失 Expected loss	不同认知水平的农户所占比例Proportion of farmer households with varied cognitions
预期损失 Expected loss	非常不可能 Impossible	比较不可能 Unlikely	一般 General	比较可能 Likely	非常可能 Probably
耕地质量下降Decrease the quality of cultivated land	8.80	26.62	14.05	19.29	31.24
利益受损得不到合理补偿Loss of interest	7.55	24.74	18.24	21.17	28.30
土地分配不公Unfair distribution of cultivated land	5.87	19.70	24.32	25.37	24.74
权属纠纷和矛盾	5.45	23.48	24.53	24.32	22.22
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变量 Variable	回归系数 Regression coefficient	标准差 Standard deviation	显著性概率 Significance probability
截距项	-7.937	2.256	<0.001
Intercept term
x₁	0.996	0.413	0.016
x₂	0.184	0.296	0.535
x₃	0.869	0.299	0.004
x₄	0.460	0.207	0.026
x₅	0.022	0.272	0.911
x₆	0.386	0.216	0.074
x₇	-0.598	0.267	0.025
x₈	-0.022	0.292	0.203
x₉	-1.014	0.310	0.001
x₁₀	-0.363	0.277	0.190

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