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Empirical study on factors influencing farmers willingness to cropland abandonment in Hunan Province#br#

  

  1. (1 School of Public Management, Hunan Business College, Changsha 410205, China;
    2 College of Resources and Environment Science, Hunan Normal University, Changsha 410081, China;
    3 Institute of Political Science, Central China Normal University, Wuhan 430079, China)
  • Online:2015-08-25 Published:2015-08-21

Abstract: From the perspective of farmers, a Logistic model was adopted to analysis factors influencing farmers willingness to cropland abandonment in nine villages in Hunan Province. It was shown that the distance of farmers home to cropland and farmers education level were positively related, while the harvest times in a year and farmers satisfaction of income from farming were negatively related to the results of the model.

Key words: cropland abandonment, farmers willingness, influence factors