The Study On The Comparative Efficiency And Willingness Of Farmer’s Growing Grass In Southwest Of China

Using pasture resources and grass-eating livestock, Grass-husbandry industry can provide high quality beef, mutton and dairy products for people. This industry can help us to save grain, improve food producing efficiency and made people keep healthy. Due to the irrational Agricultural structure, China has implemented the policy of integration of planting and raising animals, in addition, the measures of transforming part of corn into silage corn has also been carried out to improve the productivity. Grass-husbandry industry’s booming development has become a inevitable trend. Southwest of China is an important part of China. Most part of it has proper climate natural resources endowment and abundant land and grass land to develop Grass-husbandry. Besides, the price of beef and mutton in South China is far higher than North China, so the Grass-husbandry products will have a good market in future. With the projects of precise poverty alleviation carrying out step by step, the farmers’ grass growing enthusiasm planting grass and raising livestock in Southwest of China gradually be improved. Because Grass-husbandry industry will be a suitable path for r poverty alleviation in the Southwest of China.Taking the farmers’ grass-planting as perspective, and the statistical analysis, econometric analysis and investigation as method, this study mainly made comparative efficiency and willingness of farmer’s growing grass in southwest of China using 197 samples from Sichuan and Guizhou, for understanding the basic situation of the farmers’ planting grass and analyzing the key factors of influencing farmers’ growing grass and raising livestock deeply.The main results of this study include 5 parts:(1) the grass resource endowment in Southwest of China is abundant, so the government should increase the resources’ utilization and exploitation.(2) the grass growing comparative efficiency is significantly higher than corn and paddy, but due to the backward storage technique, abound of fresh grass cannot transform into market value, which hindered the grass industry development in Southwest of China. So the combination of the grass industry and husbandry industry will be an feasible path in Southwest of China.(3) grass-husbandry industry in Southwest of China has attracted a number of new forces by the investigation on the spot. The first force is migrant workers with adequate savings who returned home to carry out growing grass and raising livestock, in order to take good care of the elderly and children. The second one is the entrepreneurs who tend to invest and help their hometowns. They created ruminant products brand, help farmers to get rid of poverty. The third one is the indigenous entrepreneurs who are optimistic about the market prospect to invest in southwest of China. So the phenomenon of the “capital + entrepreneurs” packaged back to the rural area has appeared in the southwest of China.(4) The enthusiasm of farmers planting grass in the Southwest area is very high recently, due to in shortage of fund, the majority of farmers choose the "snowball" model by which farmers invest most of the income into reproduction.(5) The logistic model found that significant impact on farmers growing willingness include the length of farmers engaged in forage livestock, family fund, rent, the proportion of livestock products accounting for total household income, amount of culturing, Whether familiar with the relevant policy, whether there is a enterprise around his farm, whether there are good social service in his area, all of this factors have significant effect on farmers willingness of growing grass.The policy advices are proposed based on the above study. The first is to extend and upsetting herbivorous animal husbandry industry chain continually. The Second is to construct the information platform of early warning; The Third is to increase the policy support of financial capital to grass-husbandry industry; And the forth is to promote financial insurance to Grass- husbandry industry. The last is to create new training system for the grass-growing farmers.