Farmers'Demand for Forestry Cooperative Organization: A Case Study of Sanming City, Fujian Province

With the development of collective forest tenure reform, allocating the forest land to individual household makes forest operation fragmented, which prevents forestry scale management to some extent. In 2003, the No. 1 document of Central Committee proposed substantial support to develop manifold forms of new farmers'cooperative organizations. Based on a questionnaire survey on 483 farmers and 140 managers in Sanming City, Fujian Province, through descriptive statistical analysis and by building a binary Logistic regression model, this paper studies the farmers'demand for forestry cooperation organizations, and the impacts of the demand on the development of forestry cooperation organizations. It then puts forward some suggestions on how to promote the healthy development of forestry cooperative organizations and develop large-scale management.