Research On Organizational Support,Social Networks And Management Effect Of Small Farmland Water Conservancy Facilities

Farmland water conservancy projects are the lifeblood of agricultural production and development,and small farmland water conservancy facilities that distributed in the cultivated field are closely related to national food security,farmers’ income and rural economic development.In order to solve the problem of insufficient supply of small farmland water conservancy facilities,the Chinese government has adopted incentive policies,such as "civilian office assistance" and "one case,one discussion" to gradually alleviate the contradiction between supply and demand of small farmland water conservancy facilities.However,in practice,the effect of small-scale farmland water conservancy facilities management and protection is not satisfactory.The specific performance is that the construction,management and use are disconnected.Many places attach importance to construction despise management and the utilization efficiency of small farmland water conservancy facilities is low.The key to solving this problem lies in farmers’ participation in management and protection.In theory,farmer participation in management and protection is the process by which many farmers in the same area choose to participate independently to achieve collective action.However,because individual rationality and collective rationality are not necessarily consistent,it often leads to the dilemma of autonomous governance,and social networks and organizational support provide new ideas for improving the effectiveness of management and protection.On the one hand,as an informal system,social networks contain a variety of social resources.These social resources can affect social structure and individual actions.At the same time,social networks can promote the exchange of information among network members.The role of “bridges” and “adhesives” can significantly improve the collective cooperation consciousness of individual peasant households,realize the unity of individual and collective interests,and promote the success of collective action in villages,thereby effectively improving the effect of peasant households’ participation in management and protection.On the other hand,the public product attributes of small farmland water conservancy facilities determine the indispensability of organizational support in the process of management and protection.The support provided by grass-roots organizations can enhance farmers’ recognition of the organization,demonstrate citizen behavior,and they will response positively.Therefore,studying the effects of small farmland water conservancy facilities management from both organizational support and social networks will help to find ways to improve the effectiveness of management and protection,and provide theory and basis for the innovation of small farmland water conservancy facilities management mechanism.From the perspective of organizational support and social networks,this paper systematically sorts out domestic and foreign literature.Under the guidance of public pond resource theory,organizational support theory,social capital and social network theory,collective action theory,using 1,040 micro-data of farmers from field surveys in 6 provinces(autonomous regions)in Gansu,Ningxia,Shaanxi,Inner Mongolia,Henan,and Shandong,Firstly,the status of management and protection of small farm water conservancy facilities is analyzed.Secondly the organizational support and social network index system is constructed.The organizational support is divided into two dimensions of emotional support and instrumental support.And using factor analysis to measure organizational support and social networks and their various dimensional indexes and analyze their basic characteristics.Finally,an ordered probit model was used to explore the impact of organizational support and social networks and their interaction terms on the management and protection of small farmland water conservancy facilities.The main research conclusions obtained are as follows:(1)Organizational support has a significant positive impact on the management and protection of small farmland water conservancy facilities.Farmers feel that the greater the degree of organizational support,the more they are willing to participate in the management and protection of small farmland water conservancy facilities,which has a positive impact on the improvement of management and protection effects.(2)The social network has a significant impact on the management and protection of small farmland water conservancy facilities.After subdividing the social network into friends and relatives network and general network,it is found that the general network has a significant positive impact on the management and protection of small farmland water conservancy facilities.The friends and relatives network impact is not significant.(3)The interaction item between organizational support and relatives and friends has a significant negative impact,while the interaction item between organizational support and general network has a significant positive impact.Organizational support can effectively enhance the degree of connectivity of the general network,thereby the effectiveness of management and protection will be improved.(4)Farmers ’gender,health,government investment,farming prospects,and farmers’ perceived benefits all have a significant positive impact on the effectiveness of small farmland water conservancy facilities.