The Impact Of Collective Forest Right System Reform On Farmer’s Income In Gansu Province

Albeit forest was considered as the important foundation of national economy, but forcedby double pressure of population growth and economic development, superadded socialhistory causes, the phenomenon such as higher farmland proportion, serious pasturedegradation etc. has appeared in our country, and bring out most forest resources like naturalforest and wetland runs out gradually in social development process, which made a serious ofinterference on ecological system, lead to a series of fearful ecological environment problems,for example, desertification, soil erosion, flood, sand storm and even made the place wherewildlife perched damaged. To mitigate these problems, give full play to the aspects of rolethat forestry could supply rich forest products and maintain the balance and steady of landecological system for humans’ survival and development, and then achieve the long-term goalof forestry sustainable development, The Decision On Accelerating The Forestry Under TheState Council was published in2003, which indicated the direction for our country’s fifthstage of collective forest right system reform (hereinafter referred to as collective forestsreform), and forest reform began in five provinces like Fujian provinces, Jiangxi provinces,Liaoning provinces, Zhejiang provinces, and Guangdong provinces for pilot run. And Gansuprovince also started a collective forest reform pilot project in2008, which was completedand then a province-wide comprehensive reform began at the end of2009, and completed thereform of collective forest basically till March2011.Because of low vegetation cover, poor site conditions, and fragile ecologicalenvironment in Gansu province, whose collective forest reform is different from otherprovinces in the South, the models of reform are still in the stage of exploratory, but with thecompletion of the forest reform, it’s worth paying attention to what benefits that the reformhas generated in Gansu province. This paper departed from micro perspective of farmers,based on related document literature, guided by property theory, ecological public productssupply theory etc. Made a descriptive statistics analysis on statistics data at first, and thenusing stata statistics software and Mincer model of half logarithmic equation researched theeffects on farmers income about the collective forest reform that was mainly of ecologicalpublic forest in Gansu province. With that analyzed and discussed the position and theconsideration both of Government and farmers in the forestry operating based on the gamemodel, attempts to improve farmers’ initiative of forestry operating, protect the ecologicalfunctions’sufficient supply, and provide a appropriate reference basis to formulate and perfectthe supporting measures on forest reform follow-up.The empirical analysis came following conclusions: the effect to sample farmers forestryincome is significance, while on other income it’s not reached significance level yet about collective forest which mainly of ecological public forest in Gansu province. When refer toaspects about production elements inputs, it’s said that different effects degree would be madeby land and labor on sample farmers’ income, but overall for, farmers’ enthusiasm on inputsmainly reflected in economic forest and non-agricultural employment aspects, it’s not high onecological public forest operating, and it’s also exists instability on inputs of economic forest.To some extent, this exacerbating farmers’ dependence on non-agricultural inputs, promotinglabor’s transfer to other directions from the agricultural land and woodland, and thisphenomenon has undoubtedly become the subsequent obstacle to following forest reform tocarry forward. Shortly thereafter, the article departed from the perspective of ecological forestin forest reform in Gansu province, discovered through study of game between theGovernment and farmers, that as a local eco-buyer, the local government should improvefarmers’ initiative on forest operating in order to guarantee ecological functions sufficientsupply in process of policy implementation on following collective forest reform. Based onthe findings, this paper puts forward corresponding suggestions like: Improve compensationon forest; Reduce the management cost of ecological forest about household; Developeconomic forest and economy which would be achieved under forest; Increase farmers’ directincome on woodland; Increase the chance on local employment and employment earnings.