Analysis on the determinants of farmer households' willingness to participate into forestry standardization project management.

Abstract

As a propeller to promote the transformation and upgrading of forestry industry, standardized forestry management is also an important measure to accelerate the transformation of scientific and technological achievements of forestry. This paper used the Binary Logistic modeling to analyze farmer households' willingness to participate into forestry standardization project management based on a survey of farmer households in Anji County and Linhai City, Zhejiang Province. The research findings indicated the major determinants of farmer households' willingness to participate into forestry standardization project management included their forestland fragmentation degree, possession of sufficient or insufficient funds, family members' training experience in the forestry production technology, existence of forest products cooperatives in their towns or townships, and their anticipation of the forestry standardization projects. And based on the research findings, the paper gave the following suggestions on improving farmer households' willingness to participate into forestry standardization project management. Forestry standardization publicity should be enhanced to improve farmer households' awareness of standardization management; support funds for forestry standardization project should be raised to increase farmer households' willingness to participate into the standardization management; technical trainings of forestry production should be strengthened to improve farmer households' enthusiasm to participate into standardization management; the construction of forest products cooperatives should be improved to increase the institutional safeguard for the services regarding forest products.