Study On Farmers' Interests From Grain For Green Program In Guizhou Province

As china's massive ecological program, Grain for Green Program (GGP) plays an important role in solving ecological environment problem, for example water and soil eroding and sanding. This program is promoted by the government, and fanners are the principle part. Economics tells us that the farmer' s action is decided by their interests. And we know that farmer's action will affect the fruit of the GGP. So during researching effects and the following policies of this program, we should think much of the farmers' interests.This research is based on twice investigations on the spot in Guizhou Province. And define the "farmer's interests "as right approach, policy recognition, and short-term and long-term effect on their income.Through analysis of farmer's right approach and policy recognition, the conclusions are: (1) Farmers haven't got all their rights in the Grain for Green Program; (2) Farmers are satisfied with the policy of the Grain for Green Program; (3) After the subsidy is at term, "what the farmers should live on" is a problem.In the analysis of short-term influence on farmers' income, the farmers are classified to three groups accordance with proportions of crop-income in the total income of fanner. The three groups are: strong dependence, middle dependence and feeblish dependence on land. In this paper, we carried out analysis on the farmers' income change by the descriptive statistics and econometrics modeling methods. The two methods have the similar results, which are: (1) The program leads to decreasing in farmers' crop-income; (2) It leads to increasing in farmers' total income. But the effect is not obviously, and if the subsidy is not added, farmers' total income will change to "decrease"; (3) The Grain for Green Program has different effect on different farmers that depend land differently; (4) There is a trend that...