Analysis On Farmers Demand Preference And The Influencing Factors In Village Infrastructure In Underdeveloped Areas

Village infrastructure has been playing an important role in increasing the farmer' income, the construction of the new socialism countryside and the development of the modern agriculture. The quality of village infrastructure's construction will be related to the process of solving the problem of "Agriculture, Countryside and Farmers" directly .However, because of China's dual economy structure between urban and rural areas, the emphasis of financial investment hasn't been put on it, so the imbalance between supply and demand of the infrastructure construction has been existing for a long time in the rural areas.These problems are more serious in underdeveloped areas. Therefore, It is an urgent problem that how to improve the efficiency of supporting village infrastructure financially in the context of fewer financial funds.First of all,This article introduces the village infrastructure theory, the demand preference theory and the public choice theory.Then, the author based on the survey from 11 villages of 9 counties in Guizhou province to come to the conclusion that there are a series of problems in the underdeveloped areas.For example, the shortage of the supply, the imbalance between supply and demand, the single source of funds and lack of maintenance.The farmers have a high concern on infrastructure constructing and good awareness about the importance of it. Most of farmers have higher enthusiasm to participate in the construction of infrastructure and enough confidence in the government will continue to increase the investment on village infrastructure. However,the farmers have low degree of satisfaction at infrastructure of their own villages.Secondly, the author analyzes the farmers'demand preference by calculating the score and sorting order, the result shows that the farmers have the highest demanding on reinforcement of the village roads in underdeveloped areas. The demand preference and the willingness of participation of farmers are similar.The farmers from the majority of villages have relatively similar preference and willingness of participation by using cluster analysis. Additionally, The farmers' demand preference is different dramatically between national-poor counties and non-national-poor counties by crosstab analysis and contingency coefficient test. The farmers' preference and willingness of participation are uniform in national-poor counties and significant differences in non-national-poor counties.Thirdly, This article studies the factors of influencing farmers ' demand preference by using binary logistic model, concluding that the older farmers prefer the electricity infrastructure and the medical infrastructure, the male farmers obviously prefer the village roads to other infrastructure, while the female farmers are more interested in the environmental infrastructure. Those farmers who have higher education have a preference for the environmental infrastructure, cultural and entertainment infrastructure, others are preferred the construction of village roads. The farmers who have higher income prefer the farmland irrigation infrastructure , and the farmers who have lower income prefer the tap water infrastructure. The farmers whose main income depends on farming have an obviously preference for production infrastructure, while others prefer the living infrastructure. The farmers who have better understanding about the benefits of the infrastructure have stronger demanding on the village roads, but have weaker preference on the electric infrastructure. Those farmers who have more confidence in government continuing to increase the investment on village infrastructure have stronger demand on the village roads and the medical infrastructure, whereas have a weaker preference on the farmland irrigation infrastructure.Finally, based on the results of empirical analysis, some suggestions are put forward to improve the efficiency of infrastructure construction. The author suggests that it is urgent to recognize the emphasis of the village infrastructure's supply in the underdeveloped areas recently. Meanwhile, It is also an effective policy choice that to create a mechanism of expressing farmers'demand preference, establish a "demand-oriented"model, and establish a decision-making mechanism to adapt to the characteristics of the villages and farmers.