The Study Of The Farmers' Agricultural Production Behavior And Their Response To The Policy In Poyang Lake Region

Poyang Lake region is an important unit of the middle reach of Yangtze River, is an important lake wetland in C hina, and is an important rice production area of China. Due to population growth, lank of land, ecological environment destruction, Poyang Lake region has become the important comprehensive study area of global scholars. The land use security in Poyang Lake region is one of the key ecological security issues in Jiangxi Province. Farmers as the direct use of farmland, farmers' behavior plays an important role in land changes, and government policies will affect farmers' behavior in Poyang Lake region.Poyang Lake region development of rural economic and rural economic reform, the employment situation of farmers diversified, and then caused the different types of farmers. Through the field survey and interview, 293 valid questionnaires were obtained, and the questionnaires were processed and analyzed by Excel and SPSS. The paper will divided farmer into pure farmers, agriculture and commerce farmers, non-agricultural and commerce farmers, and non- farmers. Based on the characteristics of different types of farmers, and then to d iscussion farmers' farmland land use, agricultural input and output, and the strategy of agricultural production. At the same time, based on the response of the policy of returning farmland to lakes and building township for relocated, and then will divided farmers into Participants and nonparticipants, from three aspects of cognition, judgment and willingness to study farmers response to the policy.In this paper, the study shows that:(1) Almost all household labor of pure farmers engaged in agricultural production, besides the elderly living alone family in Poyang Lake region. Pure farmers lease farmland to large-scale agricultural production, is planting structure relatively single, is pay attention to the economic benefits, attach importance to the agricultural mechanization. Most of agricultural products are putted on the market, the small part is used for household consumption, and their production strategy is more positive and proactive.(2) Agriculture and commerce farmers are part of the family labor engaged in agricultural production in Poyang Lake region. The farmer is most importance with rice cultivation, is focusing on capital investment, and has high benefit of the land. Their agricultural production in order to obtain income for the purpose, through increased investment in agriculture. For solve the family economic pressure, selecting active measures to face the natural disasters.(3) Poyang Lake region labor force left behind of non-agricultural and commerce farmers engaged in agriculture activities, the rest of the labor force to migrant workers. They are engage agricultural production in their own farmland, are mainly labor inputs, and agricultural products used to adequate to his family's needs. Selecting the local odd jobs to solve the family economic pressure, and when faced with natural disasters, most o f the negative coping strategies are selected.(4) Non-farmers of Poyang Lake region exist to farmland transfer and uncultivated situation. They cultivate small portion farmland, to satisfied family needs of parts. They aren't pay attention to production e fficiency, and most choose to migrant workers for solve the family economic pressure, the production strategy is more negative and passive, and the strategy of agricultural production is negative and passive.(5) Farmers of Poyang Lake region are generally more passive to the policy of returning farmland to lakes, the participants and non-participants were obviously different response. The participants of policy are the cognition more profound, the judgment more objective, and willingness more positive. The non-participants of policy are the cognition more simple, the judgment more subjective, and willingness more passive.(6) Due to the policy interests of intuitive, farmers of Poyang Lake region are more positive to the policy of b uilding township for relocated. From aspect the cognitive, two type's farmers considered that the policy exists some import. From aspect of the wil ingness, two type's farmers have positive tendency.