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Scientia Silvae Sinicae ›› 2014, Vol. 50 ›› Issue (12): 122-130.doi: 10.11707/j.1001-7488.20141217

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Inputs of Production Factors for Different Operational Types of Commercial Forests and the Technical Efficiency in the Reform of Collective Forestry Property Right System: Based on Three Stage DEA Model and Household Data of Fujian and Jiangxi Province

Li Hua1, Yao Shunbo1, Liu Can2, Guo Yajun1   

  1. 1. College of Economics & Management, Northwest A&F University Yangling 712100;
    2. Research Center of Economic Development of State Forestry Administration Beijing 100714
  • Received:2014-03-06 Revised:2014-06-10 Online:2014-12-25 Published:2015-01-08

Abstract:

The status quo about household's production factors inputs and the efficiency were analyzed with a three-stage DEA Model based on the data collected from households in Fujian and Jiangxi Province covering the period of 2007-2011. It was found that household's forestland management was still at the stage of extensive operation. The operation still preferred a shorter cycle of economic forest. The inputs of labor and funds on economic forest were higher than on wood, wood with bamboo management type. But the comprehensive technical efficiency of the economic forest management was lower than wood, wood with bamboo management mode. The scale efficiency was low, which led to low technical efficiency. After getting rid of environment variables and random factors, the pure technical efficiency rose by 35.96%, scale efficiency lowed by 34.83%, thus the average technical efficiency decreased by 11.36%. Further, improvement of the forest right reform and supporting service measures, such as reducing the difficulty of application for harvesting index, and forest right certification, and relieving taxes, was able to significantly improve the efficiency of the production of commercial forest. The older age and higher education level of the householders, and the more rainfall improved the technical efficiency; on the contrary, the higher ratio of off-farm income to total income, the more number of forest land parcel and the farther distances of forestland from roads reduced the technical efficiency. These results suggest that the suitable measure and relevant service should be improved by related government departments in order to raise the commercial forest technical efficiency and to increase farmer's income in rich forest regions.

Key words: forest tenure reform, Fujian, Jiangxi, three stage DEA model, production factor input, technical efficiency

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