Empirical Study On The Under-forest Economy Development In Sanming City Of Fujian Province

Under-forest economy is a new thing in our country appearing in the specific historical condition of the fundamental change of forestry development strategy and the great process of the collective forest right system reform. Developing under-forest economy can help to increase farmers’income, accelerate the pace of the forestry structure regulation and consolidate achievement of collective forest right system reform and ecological construction. Sanming city is one of the cities that develop forestry very well in Fujian as well as the first pilot of the collective forest right system reform in our country with the best performance. It is also very active in putting up activities to develop under-forest industry. Under this background, the study on the under-forest economy development in Sanming City has great practical significance. The study wants to make out what the under-forest economy is, who will participate in it, what factors affect the its participation and what strategy to select.The study combines the quantitive method with qualitative method, empirical method with normative method and does the following work:(1) On the basis of the former studies, define the conception of the under-forest economy(2) Use the stakeholder analysis method to find out the stakeholders of under-forest economy and classify them on the combination of qualitative and quantitive. Then the study analyzes the appeals of the key stakeholders using the game analysis method.(3) Based on spot investigation, the study collects the first hand data through questionnaires and interviews. And then analyze the intlucing factors of the farmers’ behavior and willingness to develop under-forest economy especially for the under-forest economy training part.(4) Combine the empirical with normative. The study uses the SWOT analysis method to analyze the strength, weaknesses, opportunity and threats of the under-forest economy development while uses AHP to construct the hierarchical structure model and judgment matrix and then get the conclusion. Finally, the study analyzes the strategy selection for the under-forest economy development in Fujian.(5) On the basis of the work above, the study tries to do the top level design and puts forward some suggestions. The main conclusions are as followed:Firstly, under-forest economy is the sum of the forestry production and operation activities to enhance the economic benefits while don’t decrease the ecological benefit of the certain woodlands relying on the woodland resource and forestry ecological environment. Secondly, presently, the key stakeholders of the under-forest economy is the government, the department in charge of forestry, companies and farmers. Only when the government supports it, the department in charge begins to guide actively and companies take active part in it can farmers get higher profits than developing alone or doing any other work. Consequently, farmers can join their hands to develop and get the maximum benefits in order to achieve the best effect. Thirdly, the main factors affecting the participation behavior of the under-forest economy are age, forestland area, the proportion of the non-farm income and cognition degree of under-forest economy; the main factors affecting the participation willingness of the under-forest economy are age, whether the companies participate in, whether the training is held, whether professional cooperation is constructed and whether there is enough money and so on; The study indicates that the important reason why farmers are willing to develop under-forest economy but actually don’t participate in it is the lack of relevant training. As for the factors affecting the training participation are the cognitive degree of under-forest economy, the location of the training and whether can learn the practical technology.The strengths of under-forest economy in Fujian are greater in number than the weaknesses, and the development lacks endogenetic impetus; but its opportunities are far more than the threats, if we can make full use of the opportunities and make the affections of threats to the minimum, then there is great space for the development of under-forest economy. The strategy chosen order is as follows:WO>SO>WT>ST. Fifthly, the study constructs the framework of the top level design including infrastructure framework, business framework, security framework and performance framework. It then puts forward some suggestions for the development and policy.