An analysis on the peasant household's behavior in the utilizing process of natural resources in plowland-scarcity regions - taking Shexian County, Anhui Province as the example

Farmers are the main body of agricultural production,and peasant households' behavior is(vital) to high-efficient and sustainable utilization of agricultural resources.The distinctive structure of rural natural-economic-social elements determines to some degree the uniqueness of peasant households' behavior in China.Firstly,the paper builds up the decision-making model of farmers' behavior in the utilization of resources.Then,taking Shexian County as the example,the paper probes into the general characteristics of peasant households' behavior in the utilization process of natural resources in plowland-scarcity regions.The research shows that under the restriction of tense human-land relationship,peasant households' behavior in this kind of regions displays the following characteristics: to pursuit the maximum possible self-support rate of necessities such as grain and edible oil;to take the net output value as the main economic goal of resources(utilization);to determine the utilizing scale of different cash crops according to the marginal net labor output(value);to allocate the production of ecological crops on the basis of benefits.