Survey On The Promotion Of "Participation Of Beneficiary Groups" Model In The Construction Of Agricultural Infrastructure In Jiangsu Province

Agricultural infrastructure is a typical public product and plays an important role in raising farmers’ income and promoting the modernization of agriculture.After the tax and fee reform,the higher level government became the main source of funding for agricultural infrastructure investment.The weakening and even the absence of the role of village collectives and villagers makes it difficult for higher-level governments with incomplete information to effectively use fiscal investment efficiency to meet the needs of agriculture and farmers,and to shoulder all the tasks of agricultural infrastructure from investment construction to later management.In order to reverse this situation,in 2012,the National Interim Measures for the Management of the Financial Benefits and Supplementary Projects for the Construction of Village-Level Public Welfare Projects(Finance and Agriculture Reform[2011]No.3)will be promoted nationwide,encouraging the participation of farmers and village collectives."Provide the corresponding financial awards after the farmers raise funds and raise funds," and "build the village-level public welfare undertakings according to the procedures of villagers’ agreement,village-level declaration,township preliminary examination,and county-level examination and approval." The Rural Revitalization Strategic Plan(2018-2022)further pointed out that"promoting one-on-one discussion and awarding subsidies,etc.,encourage farmers to invest in the directly benefiting rural infrastructure construction,and let farmers participate more in agricultural infrastructure construction".In this paper,the promotion of the"Participation of beneficiary groups" model,especially the role of village collectives(including villagers)and higher-level governments in the construction of agricultural infrastructure,this paper has carried out investigations and studies on Jiangsu Province.From the project proposal and the village participation in capital investment,the agricultural infrastructure construction is divided into "superior proposal and full investment","superior proposal,village committee and higher level government to jointly invest","village proposal,superior investment for all investment","The village proposes that the village committee and the higher level government jointly inves","the village proposes and the village(village committee,enterprise or private)bears all the investment" five modes of governance(of which,"the village proposes that the village committee and the higher level government jointly The investment is close to the institutional arrangement of "one case and one discussion",and explore the differences in the implementation of the "Participation of beneficiary groups" model in different villages.Select 72 villages in 18 counties of 9 cities in Jiangsu Province to conduct a sample survey to understand the agricultural infrastructure construction in each village from 2012 to 2017,and to extract 7 items(all surveys without exceeding 7 items)in each village to understand the purpose of each project.Governance model.The study found that the number of projects in the "Participation of beneficiary groups" model only accounted for 22.8%.The bottleneck lies in the difficulty of raising funds in the village.The villages use the collective income of the village instead of the villagers to raise funds.The high proportion of collective irrigation and the annual collection of a fixed amount of infrastructure construction costs are conducive to the villages to form collective decisions,and thus better promote the "one case one discussion." The high proportion of farmer households’ combined transfer is not conducive to the "Participation of beneficiary groups"fund raising and transfer of households and transfer households.Government funds tend to be relatively poor,which is indeed beneficial to alleviating poverty and promoting fairness,and can better promote the development of agriculture.Based on the above survey results,relevant suggestions are proposed:(1)Encourage multi-channel investment in agricultural infrastructure construction and optimize investment structure;(2)Enhance farmers’ sense of social trust and improve village collective governance;(3)Form agriculture in the context of land transfer A rational allocation mechanism for capital contribution to infrastructure construction;(4)Government funds are further tilted towards poverty-stricken areas to narrow the gap between the rich and the poor.