The Restriction And Compensation Of Farmers’ Land Development Rights Under Prime Farmland Planning Control

The basic farmland protection area has been a strict measure to ensure the implementation of the cultivated land protection policy for more than 20 years, which plays an important role in the security of food and farmers’ interests. However, it will restrict the land development rights of farmers to some extent, which will restrain the enthusiasm of farmers and collective economic organizations to protect the cultivated land. Then, calculating the opportunity loss caused by prime farmland protection area control can help the government to design the more efficient mechanism of farmland protection financial compensation.Cities of Shanghai, Suzhou and Chengdu have already implemented the prime farmland protection financial compensation, while it hasn’t been put into effect in Wuhan city. In this paper, Shanghai and Suzhou representing the eastern district, Chengdu representing the western district and Wuhan representing the central district were taken as examples to analyze the farmers’ awareness cognition, attitudes and compensations towards the restrictive loss of the land development right under prime farmland planning control, and find out differences between the compensations farmers expect for and the standard provided by the government. The number of sample is 703. Several conclusions can be drawn from this investigation.Firstly, on the aspect of farmers’ awareness cognition towards prime farmland protection area control, all the farmers know little about the prime farmland protection policy, and plant trees on the farmland, which is banned. And a fifth of farmers are well aware of the fact that farmers’ land development rights are limited to some extent, especially “trees banning”.Secondly, in respect of the restrictive loss of the land development right, farmers convert the usage on the possibility of 50% without the control, the restrictive loss of the eastern, central, western district decrease gradually.Thirdly, on the aspect of compensations towards the restrictive loss, nearly a quarter of farmers need the compensation and the annua compensation of the eastern, central, western district are RMB 19983.61/ha, 8707.08/ha, 15591.17/ha.Lastly, in terms of the implementation effect of the farmland protection financial compensation and differences between the compensations farmers expect for and the standard provided by the government, the degree of satisfaction on the compensation policy carried out in Shanghai, Suzhou and Chengdu is on the average level, while the farmers in Wuhan want to participate in the compensation policy. The compensations farmers expect for are higher than the present standard provided by the government.To make the mechanism of compensation better, it is necessary to improve the farmers’ participation, and do some surveys to match the farmer’ expectation, and let more cities carry out the compensation policy, and establish the right of land development.