Analysis of decision-making mechanism of arable land use based on household object in Jingji plains

Research on the mechanism of decision-making and the influencing factors for the household land use transition is the basis to analysis the driving forces of change of regional arable land quality and land potential productivity. Daxing county in Beijing and Quzhou county in Hebei province were taken as the cases to analyze. the effects of such factors as household family conditions, household income, arable land quantity and quality, and location on the decision making for the different type of household by the Logit method on the basis of the data from questionnaire survey of household and spatial distribution of land use at typical village. The result showed that the major households in Quzhou were optimization of profit and yield(OPY) , the maximum profit(MP) and OPY in Daxing county. The households preferred to input the labor and arable land intensification to improve their profit. The affecting factors such as agricultural labor, arable land quantity, arable land quality and traffic impacting degree have positive effect on making a decision of “increasing income on the basis of ensuring grain for family consumption” or “only making much more money”. Thus, these factors have also positive effects on farm households’ transition from Maximum yield (MY) to OPY, while the urbanization impacting degree has positive effect on farm households’ transition from OPY to MY.