The Studies On Peasant Households Choosing Behavior Of Planting Tomato

Tomato industry is an important part in the Red Industry of Xinjiang, which plays important role in adjusting agricultural structure, increasing their income, developing rural economy and animating area economy. With transforming dominant resources strategy and developing economy rapid, tomato industry will become major force of economic gain in Xinjiang, but have many problems as well, just as quality and law consciousness of planting farmers become indifferent, the low organizational degree of peasant households, substandard market behavior of the tomato company, the lower purchasing price and larger fluctuating, the weaker standard function of government for tomato industry. These are severe influence factor for healthy development of tomato industry and enthusiasm of planting farmers. Therefore, it is theory and reality significance for studying peasant households choosing behavior of planting tomato. This paper based from peasant household angle, adopt qualitative analysis and quantitative analysis methods, Mainly with quantitative method, it adopts 284 peasant households'investigation data in Changji of Xinjiang to research peasant households choosing behavior of planting tomato combined with Simple Logit Model, Multinomial Logit Model and Tanslog Stochastic Frontier Production Function .From the angle of choosing behavior, tomato-planting farmers account for 64.1 percent of peasant households among 284 farmers surveyed. Regression results of binary logit model indicate that household educational level, age of heading household, family scale, family pure income, manpower scale, planting acreage, no-farm income, risk attitude have significant impact on farmers'choosing behavior in planting tomato.According to the different time of seeding and ripe, tomato breed has early, middle and later period. Faced with different output, price and risk factors, peasant household make different planting choice. The middle breed takes up 39 percent mostly among 182 farmers surveyed. Regression results of Multinomial logit model indicate that age of farmers, household educational level, planting acreage factors have significant contrary impact on farmers'choosing behavior in planting early tomato compared to the later. In addition, age of farmers, planting experience, irrigation technology and no-joining order have significant positive impact on farmers'choosing behavior in planting middle tomato compared to the later.Based on surveying data, this paper analyzes technology efficiency and the impacts with stochastic frontier analysis (SFA). Regression results indicate that the average production technical efficiency of farmers planting tomatoes is 58.24%, namely, existing lose of efficiency. Experience planting tomato, irrigation technology, no-joining order and no-farm income, the following variables have more obvious effects on technical efficiency, choosing water-saving irrigation technology contribute to production technical efficiency of farmers than joining order.Based on the above-mentioned researches, this paper offers following suggestions of policy: government should strengthen the management of tomato industry, arrange protective price institutionalization of purchasing tomato, strengthen product quality and law consciousness of planting farmers, improve organization level of farmers, establish lasting cooperative organizations between enterprise and farmers planting tomato, actively popularize water-saving irrigation technologies and so on..