Analysis on the Influential Factors of Farmer's Willingness to Join Professional Cooperative Behavior in Minority Regions--Based on the Survey Data of Ili Valley Livestock Farmers

Abstract

Using the survey data of farmers and herdsmen (livestock farmers) in Ili Valley, this paper empirical analyzed their influential behavioral factors to join cooperatives through the binary logistic model. The result shows that, the factors like age, product marketing problem and the understanding level of cooperatives are obviously influenced their behavior willingness, while others like gender, education level, number of family labor forces, production material purchasing problems, financial problems, the economical and benefit variance of breeding, the understanding of government support policy is unobvious. Investigation method Selection of survey area.The Ili valley is selected as a key investigation area mainly because of its abundant natural resources with a mild and humid climate and an obvious advantages in developing agriculture and animal husbandry. It is the most important food, oilseeds, livestock, sugar beet, flax, and fruit production base in Xinjiang, and the typical farming and pastoral areas of minority in China. By the end of 2014, the total number of registered cooperatives in Bureau of Agricultural is 1358, relating to many industries like planting, herds and fruit farming. Its rapid development has promoted the industrialization and large-scale of animal husbandry development, pushing the carry out of grassland protection and settlement problems, promoting the optimization of livestock breeds. General situation of survey. In location influential mode agency, the author use home questionnaire survey. For the farmers and herdsmen whose major income is farming and livestock, here chosen random sampling method, and all the data used in this paper comes from it. A total of 200 questionnaires were sent out and 189 returned, after excluding incomplete questionnaires, 176 valid questionnaires remaining, and an effective rate of 93%. The basic information of respondents is show in Table 1-1. Table 1-1 Basic information statistics of surveyed farmers and herdsmen Index Group sample number Proportion (%) Age Under 35 43 24.4 36-45 74 42 46-55 34 19.3 Above 55 25 14.2 Education Primary and lower 112 63.6 2nd International Conference on Economy, Management and Education Technology (ICEMET 2016) © 2016. The authors Published by Atlantis Press 1115 level Junior high school 45 25.6 High school and higher 19 10.8 Ethic Han 46 26.1 Hui (including Dongxiang) 33 18.8 Other ethics (Uighur, Kazak) 96 54.5 Number of family labor two person 136 77.3 More than two person 40 22.7 Scale of farming (in Standard livestock) Within 50 76 43.2 51-100 37 21 101-150 11 6.3 151-200 9 5.1 More than 200 43 24.4 Farmers and herdsmen’ views on the development of professional cooperatives Farmers and herdsmen’s understanding level of cooperative behavior. Though started late, the farmer professional cooperatives in Ili valley is developing rapidly in recent years. When asked whether it is necessary to establish farmer and livestock professional cooperatives, nearly half of them hold a negative answer which is related with the degree of awareness of cooperatives. Their understanding degree is not ideal, one fifth of the farmers and herdsmen state they never heard it, 43.57% of them said they had heard but do not know how to operate, only 9.09% understand how it operates, which proves that most local farmers and herdsmen’s understanding of professional cooperatives is still in the initial stage. The degree of farmers and herdsmen’s satisfaction on local service organizations’ services. The survey results shows that the problems of rural credit cooperatives is the largest and most dissatisfied one, which may cause by insufficient lending support, while not so satisfied for the services of other service organizations (as Table 2-1). Table 2-1 the satisfaction degree on the service provided by service organizations No problem Fewer problem Few problem Big problem Bigger problem Local breeding station 18.18% 24.43% 36.93% 10.80% 9.66% Enterprises 26.14% 22.16% 31.82% 11.93% 7.95% Village economic organizations 10.80% 15.91% 60.80% 7.95% 5.11% famer professional cooperatives 5.11% 26.14% 42.05% 13.07% 13.07% Rural credit cooperatives 5.11% 21.02% 10.80% 28.98% 34.09% Local livestock sector 36.93% 26.14% 7.95% 13.07% 15.91% Farmers and herdsmen’ understanding level on government’s policy to support cooperatives. By analyzing the survey data, we realize that more than half farmers and herdsmen don’t understand government’s supporting policy on farmer professional cooperatives. It can be seen, although government vigorously promotes the development of professional cooperatives, few of them really understand its implications, and require the government to do more. An empirical analysis of the influential factors of farmers and herdsmen’s willingness to join in farmer professional cooperatives Because we need to found a mode to evaluate the impact factors, in which the results are only two