On Willingness of Rural Land Circulation and Securitization in Central Regions of China.

On the basis of questionnaire survey in 54 natural villages of 22 cities (counties) in 6 central region provinces, this paper analyzed the willingness of rural land circulation and securitization and influencing factors with the aid of Logistic model and Multinomial Logit model. The study indicates that factors influencing willingness of rural land circulation and securitization mainly include land contract method, land circulation information and approaches, rights and interests of farmers infringed or not, policies of benefiting farmers, and non-agricultural skills. Finally, it came up with following pertinent policy recommendations; (1) reforming and improving land contract methods; (2) strengthening disclosure of land circulation information ; ( 3 ) reforming and improving land circulation approaches ; (4 ) strengthening protection of farmers' rights and interests in the process of land circulation ; ( 5 ) reinforcing and implementing policies benefiting farmers ; ( 6 ) cultivating and developing farmers' non-agricultural skills. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]