The Influence Of Asset Specificity On Farmers’ Willingness To Participate In Land Recuperation From A Perspective Of Farmer Differentiation

The land recuperation system is important to promote China’s sustainable agricultural development and realize the rural revitalization strategy.Farmland is a high specificity asset and an important factor affecting farmers’ willingness to participate in land recuperation later.Moreover,with the rapid economic and social development,there are significant differences in the influencing factors of different types of farmers’ willingness to participate in land recuperation.In view of this,this study uses 1240 micro-survey data from four cities in Gansu Province to categorize farmers into pure farmers,Ⅰ part-time farmers,Ⅱ part-time farmers,and non-farmers based on the farmer differentiation perspective.Then,the corresponding observation variables are selected to measure the geographical location,physical asset,and human capital specificities and test the questionnaire scale.After passing the reliability and validity tests,the entropy method quantifies the asset specificity.Then,multiple ordered Logit model and Double-hurdle model are established to examine the influence of asset specificity on the land recuperation intention of non-land recuperation farmers with different degrees of part-time occupation differentiation.Additionally,the study explores the influence of the subsequent land recuperation intention and degree of land recuperation farmers with different degrees of part-time occupation differentiation.For robustness,the results are tested by the multiple ordered Logit and Heckman sample selection models.Finally,the corresponding research conclusions and policy recommendations are drawn.The results show how to encourage farmers to actively participate in land recuperation and improve the follow-up on land recuperation policy.Therefore,the study provides a theoretical reference for accelerating the construction of China’s ecological civilization.The main conclusions of this study are as follows:(1)The part-time farming has become a common phenomenon in rural China.The number of land recuperation farmers willing to participate in the subsequent land recuperation is higher than non-land recuperation farmers.Concomitantly,there were differences among different types of farmers in their willingness to participate in land recuperation.For example,the willingness of non-farmers and II part-time farmers were generally stronger than that of pure farmers and I part-time farmers.(2)Geographical location specificity has a significant negative effect on the land recuperation intention of pure farmers,Ⅰ part-time farmers and Ⅱpart-time farmers,but has no significant effect on the land recuperation intention of nonfarmers.Geographical location specificity has significant negative effects on the subsequent land recuperation intention and land recuperation degree of the four types of land recuperation farmers.However,the effect on Ⅱ part-time and non-part-time farmers was significantly smaller than on pure and Ⅰ part-time farmers.(3)The specificity of real assets has a significant negative effect on the land recuperation intention of pure farmers,Ⅰ part-time farmers and Ⅱpart-time farmers.However,it has no significant effect on the land recuperation intention of non-farmers.The specificity of physical assets has little influence on the subsequent land recuperation willingness of land recuperation farmers.It also has no significant influence on the land recuperation willingness of pure farmers and Ⅱ part-time farmers.(4)Human capital specificity has a significant negative impact on the land recuperation intention of the four types of non-land recuperation farmers.It has a greater impact on the pure and Ⅰ part-time farmers.Furthermore,human capital specificity has a significant negative impact on the subsequent land recuperation intention and land recuperation degree of the four types of land recuperation farmers.It has a greater impact on pure farmers and non-farmers.Based on the above research conclusions,this study puts forward corresponding policy suggestions,including: Implementing differential compensation policy and increasing subsidies for pure farmers;During the implementation of land recuperation,priority should be given to the cultivated land with poor quality and inconvenient transportation in villages and other geographical locations with low assets;In the implementation of land recuperation subsidy policy,not only the loss of farmers’ grain,but also the loss of agricultural machinery and irrigation facilities should be taken into account;While calling on farmers to particitate land recuperation,we should also actively organize skills training for farmers.