Abstract:

Understanding farmers’ willingness of homestead exit has important implications for promoting rural revitalization, farmland protection and national food security. In this paper, a mufti-objective framework, the stratified sampling and Logistic binary regression model were adopted to study the farmers’ homestead exit intention and its influencing factors in the typical agricultural area of the eastern Henan Province. The results showed that: (1) the cognition level of farmers on the homestead exiting policy was very low, 52.7% of the interviewed farmers did not understand the policy at all, 47.3% understood the policy partially, furthermore, more than 50% of the interviewed farmers believed that the homestead was allowed to transact; (2) only 28.57% of the interviewed farmers were willing to quit the homestead, the main reasons included ‘used to living in the old house’, ‘inconvenient farming after quitting’, ‘granting the property to the next generation’ and ‘worrying about the price for a new house’, which accounted for 34.4%, 21.6%, 20.8% and 18.4% of the total interviewed farmers respectively; (3) the most welcomed compensation way was resettlement compensation, accounting for 68.0% of the total, and only 14.3% of the interviewed farmers chose monetary compensation; (4) the main factors that affected farmers’ homestead exit intention were the number of homestead, annual family income, the understanding of homestead policy, family size and farmers’ age, and the correlation coefficient of the above factors was 3.840, 1.028, 0.850, -0.414 and -0.858, respectively. To improve farmers’ homestead exit intention, it is necessary to develop regional industrial economy, increase rural household income and strengthen policy publicity.

Key words: typical agricultural area, willingness of homestead exit, Logistic model, cognitive level, compensation method, influencing factors