Determinants Of Rural Households’ Forest Investment Behaviorin The Context Of The Collective Forestry Reform In Gansu

Farmers havebecome the main role of the production and management of forestry after the collective forest tenure reform was basically completed. Their forestry investment behavior has a major direct influence on China’s forestry development and even the construction of ecological civilization. To investigate the effect of forest tenure reform in Gansu Province collective on farmers forest investment behavior, this paperprovides recommendations for western poverty regions to comprehensively promote the reform andincrease farmers’ income and forestry efficiency.In this paper, the sample data came from the rural household survey which was called "collective forest tenure reform and the rural labor mobility project in Gansu province " and was done byBeijing Forestry University students and teachers in 2012. On the basis of the literature review, this research combined the basic situation of collective forest tenure reform in Gansu Province, summarized changes in household forestry investment behavior before and after the forest tenure reform and established logit regression, multiple linear regression model and ordered logit regression model to analyze rural households’forestry investment decision-making behavior, level of investment and investment tendencies from capital and labor respectively by using the software STATA 12.0.The main researchresults are concluded as follows:The participation rate of the rural households was low in terms ofrelated measures of the collective forestry reform. The policy factors are not very significant on their investment behavior.The Lin warrant & forest insurance significantly affect farmers’labor investment behavior decision negatively. Mortgage Loan has significant positive impact farmers forestry labor investment scale. How difficult to apply logging quotas has significant positive impact on their forestry labor investment scale and investment tendency.Based on the above conclusion, relevant policy recommendations were put forward to encouragerural households’ forestry production and management in terms of government initiative: strengthening forestry knowledge and policytraining; enhancing the forestry income of farmers; relaxing the quota system; popularizing foresty insurance; implementing the Forest Right Mortgage Loan.