Research On The Influence Of Labor Structure On The Choice Of Farmers’ Livelihood Strategies

The major strategic task of rural revitalization put forward in the report of the 19 th National Congress of the Communist Party of China has further clarified the importance of developing rural economy and promoting the construction of current rural work tasks.As the most active agricultural production and living subject in rural areas,the stable development of small farmers ’ livelihood is the key to rural revitalization.The proposal of new development policies will inevitably have a greater impact on the existing surplus labor force in smallholder households in the face of outward transfer and development issues.In addition to other livelihood capital,the labor force member structure in human capital is the key to affecting the livelihood development of farmers.For further research,based on the survey data of 175 small farmers in Anhui and Shandong provinces,it is of practical significance to understand the current status of livelihood strategies of small farmers,study the relationship between labor force membership structure and livelihood strategies,establish Logistic regression model,and analyze the influencing factors of farmers ’ livelihood strategy selection.This thesis takes the sample survey data of farmers in two major agricultural provinces of Anhui Province and Shandong Province as the research core,collects the basic information status and livelihood information of family labor members,and analyzes the basic characteristics of farmers ’ labor and livelihood strategies at the present stage with the help of DFID sustainable livelihood analysis framework development theory.Then,an empirical analysis model is constructed to analyze the influencing factors of farmers ’livelihood strategy selection,and finally draws conclusions and puts forward corresponding suggestions.The conclusions of the study show that :(1)More and more farmers choose the livelihood model of labor-based agriculture.(2)Although the influencing factors of each livelihood strategy model have repeated intersections,they are not exactly the same.(3)In the labor structure,the number of labor force,education level,physical quality of labor force and age of labor force are the key indicators affecting the choice of livelihood strategies,and there are differences in the impact of each indicator on the choice of livelihood strategies of farmers.(4)Among the influencing factors of livelihood strategy choice,the number of labor force,education level and health quality have a positive impact on the agricultural dominant type of peasant households,and the age of labor force has a negative impact on it.The transformation from pure peasant households to non-agricultural dominant families is affected by the number of labor force,health quality and labor age in the labor structure.The process of transforming pure farmers into non-agricultural families is also affected by the three factors of labor force,health quality and labor age.Based on the above conclusions,this thesis puts forward the following suggestions :make full use of the structure of labor resources,attract talents to participate within the conditions,and help farmers change to professional farmers;encourage farmers to choose a variety of livelihoods;retaining the rural labor force also needs to keep pace with the times,develop new forms of new industries in rural areas,and provide employment for farmers;pay attention to the quality of the labor force,strengthen the technical training of the labor force;and pay attention to the cultivation of comprehensive quality,improve the education mechanism investment;finally,in order to ensure the long-term stability of farmers ’ livelihood,it is necessary to pay attention to human training and improve rural medical conditions.