Farmers’ Willingness to Engage in Ecological Compensation for Crop Rotation in China’s Black Soil Regions

Ruhao Xue, Bonoua Faye, Rui Zhang, Xin Gong and Guoming Du ()
Additional contact information
Ruhao Xue: School of Economics and Management, Yuncheng University, Yuncheng 044000, China
Bonoua Faye: School of Public Administration and Law, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin 150030, China
Rui Zhang: College of Economics and Management, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin 150030, China
Xin Gong: School of Public Administration and Law, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin 150030, China
Guoming Du: School of Public Administration and Law, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin 150030, China

Agriculture, 2024, vol. 14, issue 8, 1-23

Abstract: Assessments of farmer satisfaction can be a crucial tool for effectively implementing an appropriate ecological compensation policy. This study evaluates the effectiveness of an ecological compensation policy for crop rotation in China’s black soil regions from the perspective of farmer satisfaction. Specifically, utilizing an improved entropy TOPSIS, logistic regression, and the obstacle degree model, this empirical study analyzes the performance of the ecological compensation policy for crop rotation in black soil regions and identifies barriers in Heilongjiang Province. The findings indicate that gender significantly and positively affects outcomes at the 10% level, while age has a notable influence at the 5% level. Additionally, the family labor force and the quality of cultivated land, both significant at the 5% level with negative coefficients, suggest a diminished likelihood of farmers participating in these ecological compensation projects. The family’s source of income, significantly influential at the 1% level, also indicates a lower propensity among farmers to engage. Performance analysis reveals that the values for variables of satisfaction with the project’s publicity (A1), satisfaction with the protection of farmers’ rights and interest (A3), overall satisfaction with the effectiveness of the project (B1), satisfaction with ecological compensation methods (B3), and satisfaction with household income after the implementation of the project (C1) are above the average. In contrast, values for variables of satisfaction with the supervision and management (A2), satisfaction with the payment of ecological compensation funds (A4), satisfaction level with black soil rotation ecological compensation standards (B2), satisfaction with the welfare level of family life after the implementation of the project (C2), and satisfaction with farmers’ proactive participation in the project (D1) fall below the average of 3.03. Therefore, this study provides a comprehensive framework for assessing the effectiveness of the ecological compensation policy for crop rotation in China’s black soil regions and offers recommendations for enhancing its performance.

Keywords: China’s black soil regions; ecological compensation; farmers’ satisfaction; crop rotation; farmers’ willingness; farmers’ behavior; cultivated land quality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q1 Q10 Q11 Q12 Q13 Q14 Q15 Q16 Q17 Q18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (2)

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.mdpi.com/2077-0472/14/8/1320/pdf (application/pdf)
https://www.mdpi.com/2077-0472/14/8/1320/ (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:gam:jagris:v:14:y:2024:i:8:p:1320-:d:1452872

Access Statistics for this article

Agriculture is currently edited by Ms. Leda Xuan

More articles in Agriculture from MDPI
Bibliographic data for series maintained by MDPI Indexing Manager ().