Farmers’ Willingness to Participate in Small-Scale Farmland Water Conservation Construction in China

Fang Luo; Fangmin Sun; Dan Xu; Caihong Sun; Qing Wang

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Farmers’ Willingness to Participate in Small-Scale Farmland Water Conservation Construction in China

Fang Luo, Fangmin Sun, Dan Xu, Caihong Sun, Qing Wang

Published in International Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization (Volume 5, Issue 2)

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Small-scale farmland water conservation facilities are “the last mile” of irrigation works, and determine whether the large- and medium-scale water conservation projects financed by the government will provide the most value and maximum efficiency. Farmers play a primary role in the construction of small-scale farmland water conservation, while the government’s role is only to encourage and subsidize such projects. Farmers’ willingness to participate determines their behavior. This paper, firstly, uses a utility function for goods and water conservation facilities to solve the farmers’ optimization problem. It puts forward six theoretical propositions about farmers’ willingness to invest in small-scale farmland water conservation. Secondly, based on survey data in Hubei Province, China, the Heckman Two-step Model is used to analyze the factors affecting farmers’ willingness to participate in construction of small-scale irrigation systems and the factors affecting the amount of investment that participants are willing to undertake.

Published in	International Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization (Volume 5, Issue 2)
DOI	10.11648/j.ijebo.20170502.12
Page(s)	54-62
Creative Commons	This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Heckman Two-Step Model, Small-Scale Farmland Water Conservation, Farmers

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Fang Luo, Fangmin Sun, Dan Xu, Caihong Sun, Qing Wang. Farmers’ Willingness to Participate in Small-Scale Farmland Water Conservation Construction in China. Int J Econ Behav Organ. 2017;5(2):54-62. doi: 10.11648/j.ijebo.20170502.12

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Fang Luo

School of Commerce, Huanggang Normal University, Huanggang, China
Fangmin Sun

School of Commerce, Huanggang Normal University, Huanggang, China
Dan Xu

School of Commerce, Huanggang Normal University, Huanggang, China
Caihong Sun

School of Commerce, Huanggang Normal University, Huanggang, China
Qing Wang

School of Commerce, Huanggang Normal University, Huanggang, China

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