Abstract:
The property rights of collective forests were clarified through the reforms on it since 2008,
and the family-contract-management system for forest land was stabilized. However this led to the small
scale of forest land management, which is not favorable to intensive management, and also limits the
further increase of the efficiency of collective forest management. In this research, we used Probit model
to make a quantitative analysis on the willingness of joining the forestry cooperation organizations among
500 farmers from 50 villages of 10 counties in Liaoning Province. The results show that the following
factors have certain influences on the directions and degrees of farmers'willingness: the number of
forestry cooperation organizations in the villages, whether individuals have received professional education
of forest technology, the area of forest land, the size of family, agricultural land area per capita, whether
family members work as village leaders, and income per capita. It is suggested in this paper that the
government should give more policy support for developing forestry cooperation organizations,
strengthening service capacity of forestry cooperation organizations, and therefore promote the larger scale
management of the farmers'forest land resources.