An Analysis On The Effects Of Subsidy Policy On The Adjustment Of Production Behavior For Forestry Farm Households

Under the background of more and more attention of grain and oil safety and with the strengthening of China’s comprehensive national strength.Fujian is the center of Camellia oleifera Industry.In recent years,governments at all levels have introduced and implemented a series of subsidy policies.The aim of the subsidy policy is to improve the farmers’enthusiasm for planting camellia oil to a certain extent and through the subsidies for the production and operation of Camellia oleifera so that it is possible to increase the planting area of Camellia oleifera,and optimize the allocation of resources in the process of production and operation of Camellia oleifera.Therefore,in this study,it is the key to evaluate the effect of Camellia oleifera policy on how to conduct a clear analysis of the behavioral response of farmers to the subsidy policy.Thus,the overall objective of this study is as follow:Starting from the micro level of farmers and explaining the current situation of Fujian tea subsidy policy and then clearly understand the mechanism and main influence factors of Camellia oleifera subsidy policy on the adjustment of tea plantation area,labor input and capital input.On this basis,with the example of Camellia oleifera plantation in Fujian Province,this paper empirically analyzes the effect of subsidy policy on the adjustment of farmers’ planting area,capital investment and labor input,and provides an empirical basis for the formulation and implementation of the subsidy policy.In order to achieve the goal of the study,this study uses the research methods of economics,sociology and metrology,and also combines qualitative and quantitative analysis,normative research and empirical research.The main contents include the following 5 aspects:(1)Chapter One and Chapter Two:through the literature analysis of tea industry development,the basic situation of subsidy policy and forestry subsidy policy,the related research status of farmers’ forestry production behavior to lay the foundation for the analysis of the effect of the subsidy policy on the farmer’s production behavior;(2)Chapter Three is mainly about analyzing the influences of subsidy policy on the adjustment of Camellia oleifera production behavior from aspects of welfare effect,adjustments of farmers planting areas,labor input and capital input under the guidance of economics and creating the framework of influencing factors of subsidy policy on the adjustment of Camellia oleifera production behavior to establish the theoretical framework of the full text;(3)Chapter Four concerns about collecting Camellia oleifera block data,which is gathered by using questionnaires,based on subsidy policy on the adjustment of its production behavior and adopting descriptive statistical analysis to analyze and evaluate the characteristics of Camellia oleifera production behavior to provide the basis for the construction empirical model;(4)Chapter Five pays attention to analyzing the effect about Camellia subsidy policy on the adjustment of its production behavior through using propensity score matching,obtaining the Camellia oleifera planting area adjustment ratio,Camellia oleifera planting’s labor input adjustment ratio and the amount of labor per unit area of Camellia oleifera,the adjustment ratio of Camellia oleifera planting’s capital investment and the net effect value of Camellia oleifera’s capital investment per unit area;(5)Chapter Six summarizes the main research conclusion and proposes suggestions to improve the subsidy policy of Camellia oleifera.The main conclusions of this study are as follows:(1)Camellia oleifera.subsidy policy has obvious effect in promoting Camellia oleifera planting area adjustment ratio.The subsidy policy of Camellia oleifera at least increases the Camellia oleifera planting area adjustment ratio about 36.55%,the maximum up to 45.99%and the average increased value is 42.26%,reflecting the realization of expected policy effect on increasing planting area in the subsidy policy.After the implementation of the subsidy policy of woody grain and oil,the planting area of woody grain and oil in the main planting area has been greatly increased,which can be attributed to the current Camellia oleifera subsidy policy.The new afforestation subsidies linked to the planting area in particular can meet the conditions of subsidies when planting exceeds a certain scale,to some extent,this greatly stimulates the growth of planting area.(2)The Camellia oleifera subsidies have no significant effect on the adjusted rate of camellia labor and the input number of labor on per unit of the Camellia oleifera area.Among that,the subsidies play few effects on the increases of labor adjustment for those farmers,the average value adds only 0.91 percent.And the effect on the increase of labor input is also few,the average rate adds only 0.08 person per acre.The main reason is that Camellia oleifera plantation needs large proportion of manpower in Forestry area.With the continuous growing cost of labor,the investment for the Camilla labor increase rapidly.So people who with new afforestation or large planting area are looking for new ways,such as enlarging chemical use,mechanical,to substitute manpower.And large-scale management promotes the process of mechanization.(3)The camellia oleifera subsidy policy plays a significant role on money investment on every unit of the plant area,but has little effect on the adjusted rate of money investment.On other words,the subsidies increase the money invest for oil tea camellia,the minimal number of capital investment for oil tea camellia is 37.02 yuan per acre,the maximal number is 40.05 yuan per acre.But for the capital adjusted rate,the average rate adds only 4.17 percent.The key factor is that the subsidies only direct to the new plantation,regeneration reforestation,seeding and free chemical fertilizer.But the most farmers can afford those by themselves,with the guidance to meet their families needs,the forestry subsidies just an extra income for those peasant families.Farmers would not ask additional capital investment when they had satisfied their family need.Based on the above conclusions,this paper puts forward 3 suggestions:(1)using various channels to conduct the advocacy work of subsidy policy;(2)establishing a comprehensive system of subsidies to improve the production of Camellia oleifera per unit area;(3)establishing dynamic subsidy standards and maximizing regulatory function of subsidy policy.The degree of realization of the goal of Camellia oleifera subsidy policy should be presented through the Camellia oleifera production behavior.However,there is no in-depth study on this issue,this paper studies the influence of Camellia oleifera subsidy policy on the adjustment of farmers Camellia oleifera production behavior from the perspective of farmers’production behavior.Therefore,the perspective and the content of this study are of certain innovation.At the same time,the Camellia oleifera subsidy policy is not random,and people who can get the subsidy are subject to some requirements.What’s more,farmers can choose whether to apply for the subsidy or not,so there exits endogenous problems.This study adopts the propensity score matching method to solve the problems.The research method is a new try.But because of limited conditions,this study choose to carry out this research in Youxi county of Sanming City.In the future study,if conditions permitted,it is necessary to supplement survey data from farmers in other Camellia oleifera production areas of Fujian province to make the research conclusion more comprehensive and applicable.