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Scientia Silvae Sinicae ›› 2015, Vol. 51 ›› Issue (12): 87-95.doi: 10.11707/j.1001-7488.20151211

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The Impact of Labor Transfer Level on Input and Output of Household Forestland-Based Production——Empirical Analysis Based on 1178 Households in Jiangxi Province

Liao Wenmei1, Kong Fanbin2, Lin Ying3   

  1. 1. School of Economics and Management/Research Base on Rural Land Resources Use and Protection, Jiangxi Agricultural University Nanchang 330045;
    2. Jiangxi Academy of Social Sciences Nanchang 330077;
    3. College of Economics and Management, Northwest A & F University Yangling 712100
  • Received:2015-06-19 Revised:2015-10-26 Online:2015-12-25 Published:2015-12-29

Abstract: [Objective] Labor is a main production factor of forestry economic growth, this paper attempted to answer the question of what specific impact on the farmer's input and output levels of forestland would be caused by large number of rural labors transferring. The concerns are important significance to enhance the forestland input and output efficiency.[Method] Based on 1178 samples of the survey data in Jiangxi Province, and used quantitative regression mode, this paper analyzed the impacts and its differences on input and output of the farmers forestland by local and nonlocal transfer of labor.[Result]The extent of labor transfer had a significantly negative effect on households' input and output of forestland with an influencing coefficient of -0.099. The effects of labor local transfer on forestland input and output exhibited differently, local transfer had a higher negative effect compared to nonlocal transfer.In particular,there was more obviously negative effect in the areas, which were in the lowest economic development,or in the lowest degree of accessibility,or in the lowest population aggregation.[Conclusion] The research results showed that the transfer of rural surplus labor had substantially completed, the turning point of Lewis has been coming. The advantage of demographic dividend in China has been disappearing. In addition, rural labor local transfer will become a major future trend and direction in a certain stage.It is not good to enhance the efficiency of forest management. Forest management will also face the risks of being extensive once again. Therefore, it is necessary to further improve the forestry cooperative system in order to overcome the shortage of labor supply in the forestry production after the transfer of single-family caused. Meanwhile,it is needed to speed up specialization and scale of the forestry management to ease further exacerbated the trend in concurrent business of farmers' forest management.

Key words: labor transfer, forestland input level, forestland output level, topography and geographic conditions, farmers

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