Research On The Paradox Between Farmers’ Cultivated Land Protection Willingness And Behavior

Cultivated land is a material carrier for human survival and development.Our country uses less than 10% of the world’s arable land resources and carries more than20% of the world’s population.The pressure on the cultivated land protection is clear.Due to the urgency and importance of cultivated land protection,governments at all levels attach great importance to it,and always emphasize that it should be placed in the priority position in the management of land and resources.However,there is a great contrast between cultivated land protection policy and its effect.The main reason is that the most relevant policies and regulations that have been promulgated are all top-down compulsory control measures issued from the macro level of the government.From the perspective of human behavior principle and power principle,these policies and regulations have not fundamentally stimulated farmers’ initiative to protect cultivated land in the process of agricultural production.As the main body of cultivated land contract management,farmers play a pivotal role in cultivated land protection.Analyzing and clarifying the internal action logic of farmers participating in cultivated land protection is of great significance to enhancing the policy performance of cultivated land protection.Combing the existing related research results,it is found that most of the existing studies are unilateral studies on farmers’ cultivated land protection willingness or behavior,which have separated the connections and differences between willingness and behavior.However,in reality,what is often occurs that farmers have higher cultivated land protection willingness but less cultivated land protection behavior.Therefore,transforming farmers’ cultivated land protection willingness into protection behavior is one of the effective measures to solve the problem of cultivated land protection.We select Wuhan Metropolitan Area as the research area.From the theoretical perspective of the paradox between farmers’ cultivated land protection willingness and behavior,we analyze the constraints of willingness transforming into behavior in order to know farmers’ inherent action logic of cultivated land protection.The main research conclusions are as follows:(1)From the characteristics of the samples,there is a paradox between farmers’ cultivated land protection willingness and behavior.This paradox mainly occurs in groups of farmers who have cultivated land protection willingness but do not implement the protection behavior.The proportion of farmers who express their willingness to participate in cultivated land protection is higher than the proportion of rural implementing protection behavior.Therefore,farmers’ cultivated land protection willingness will not be completely transformed into protection behavior.(2)From the comparison of the factors that affect farmers’ cultivated land protection willingness and behavior,more than half of the factors have inconsistent impacts on the two.Age,cultivated land area,and village human situation have a significant positive impact on the protection willingness,while the impact on the protection behavior is not significant;education level and village policy situation have no significant impact on the protection willingness,but the impact on the protection behavior is significantly positive;employment status and family support coefficient have no significant impact on the protection willingness,but the impact on the protection behavior is significantly negative.(3)From the perspective of the Logit and interpretive structural model of the paradox between farmers’ cultivated land protection willingness and behavior,there are 10 influencing factors passing the significance test.These dominant influencing factors have an association relationship,which is at 3 different levels.Among them,economic output value cognition and social security value cognition are superficial direct factors that directly affect the occurrence of the paradox between farmers’ cultivated land protection willingness and behavior;the proportion of agricultural income,interpersonal trust,institutional trust and strong connection networks are intermediate indirect factors that indirectly affect the occurrence of the paradox between farmers’ cultivated land protection willingness and behavior through the surface factors;education level,employment status,cultivated land area and policy propaganda are the deep root factors that affect the occurrence of paradox between farmers’ cultivated land protection willingness and behavior from the root cause.According to theoretical analysis and empirical research results,combined with actual investigations,the following policy recommendations are put forward: increase attention to rural education,and focus on improving the farmers’ production and management capabilities while comprehensively improving their basic cultural literacy;take multiple measures together to promote the co-existence of cultivated land high quality and sufficient amount for the purpose of giving full play to the cultivated land scale effect;improve the publicity mechanism of cultivated land protection policies and promote the popularization of cultivated land protection knowledge;strengthen the accumulation of farmers’ social capital and create a good environment for collective action;adjust cultivated land protection subsidy model and increase the subsidy intensity;strengthen the education and publicity of cultivated land multi-functional value to improve farmers’ cognition of cultivated land value;explore new models of differentiated cultivated land protection in accordance with local conditions.