Abstract:

The postmanagement and maintenance financing of agricultural land consolidation project is an important prerequisite for ensuring the postmanagement and maintenance effects. However, no research on the postmanagement and maintenance investment has been reported. This paper employed 390 questionnaire survey data of farmers participation in agricultural land consolidation projects of Wuhan City Circle, aiming at analyzing the cognition on postmanagement and maintenance of agricultural land consolidation projects, and willingness of investment of farmers surveyed. We also carried out an empirical study on influencing factors of postmanagement and maintenance investment for farmers to participate in agricultural land consolidation projects using Logistic model. A contingent valuation method was used to analyze the distribution of respondents average willingness to pay (WTP), and calculate the average amount paid by farmer households. The research results show that, 6 factors including village cadre identity, number of agricultural labor, per capita income in a household, farmland operation scale, proportion of nonagriculture income, the cognition level of postmanagement and maintenance working content, obviously affected the farmers willingness of investment in postmanagement and maintenance of agricultural land consolidation projects. By weighted calculation, the average willingness to pay (WTP) amount of the farmers investment in postmanagement and maintenance was 21962 yuan per household. This paper measured the total willingness to pay of farmers investment of the postmanagement and maintenance of 7 agricultural land consolidation projects area. In the end, this paper put forward following suggestions: pay attention to leading role of village cadres to improve their human capital by training the farmers; develop the rural economy and increase the farmers income; encourage the farmers launch the land transferring and scale of operation, and raise the funds for postmanagement and maintenance; consider the willingness to pay of farmers and the ability to pay at the same time