Abstract
The purpose of this paper was to analyze the influence mechanism of the new round of Collective Forest Rights Reform (CFRR) on farmers’ production efficiency from the perspective of forestland transfer. Based on the panel data of field investigation in Jiangxi Province, a panel logit model was used to verify whether the new round of CFRR has affected farmers’ forestland circulation behavior. The results showed that the new round of CFRR has played a significant role in promoting forestland circulation. Secondly, the non-parametric DEA method was used to estimate the technical, scale, and comprehensive efficiency of households. DID and panel quantile models were constructed to analyze the impact of forestland inflow policy and forestland outflow policy effects on rural household productivity. The regression results showed that the effect of forestland inflow has had a significantly positive impact on scale and comprehensive efficiency, but it only had a significant effect on technical efficiency in the 0.1 quartile. The effect of forestland outflow was not found to be significant for technical, scale, and comprehensive efficiency, but it was found to be negative for technical efficiency in the 0.75 quartile and negative for scale efficiency in the 0.5 and 0.75 quantiles.
Highlights
Based on the panel data of 4116 households in Jiangxi Province from 2003 to 2011, the authors of this paper examined the impact of the new round of Collective Forest Rights Reform (CFRR) on farmers’ production efficiency from the perspective of forest land transfer
In order to verify this problem, the authors of this paper analyzed the following problems step by step through theoretical analysis and empirical tests: the impact of the new round of CFRR on farmers’ forestland transfer behavior and the policy effects of forest land inflow and outflow on farmers’ production efficiency
The results showed that the implementation of the new round of CFRR has promoted the occurrence of farmers’ forest land transfer behavior
Summary
By the end of 2020, China’s rural population was 510 million. Though it showed a downward trend, it still accounted for 36.11% of the total population [1]. Since China’s reform in 1978, improving farmers’ production efficiency has been the focus of policy makers [2]. The implementation of the Household Contract Responsibility System (HCRS) for agricultural land has achieved great success and is considered to be an effective policy for improving the production efficiency of farmers [3]. Following the example of agricultural land, China began to carry out a series of reforms on woodlands in order to improve the production efficiency of farmers by reforming their forestry practice
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