On Factors Affecting Farmers' Willingness to Join Forest-Specialized Cooperatives

According to the survey data of 3 500 households in seven provinces in China in 2016, the influencing factors of farmers' participation in forest-specialized cooperatives were analyzed from three aspects: the basic characteristics of farmers' families, the policy of forest reform, and the forest land management situation of farm households. This paper used a binary logistic model to analyze the factors that affect the farmers' participation in the forest-specialized cooperatives, after the reform of collective forest tenure. The results show the following factors significantly affect the participation willingness of farmers in forest-specialized cooperatives: the proportion of long-term migrant workers to the number of a family's laborers, whether the head of a household is engaged in forest-related business activities, whether the head of a household is cadres, whether the head of a household has received forest technical training, the demand for forestry science and technology service, the demand for forest insurance, and the area of family's forest land.