Management of Crop Rotation Fallow in Heavy Metal Contaminated Areas: Effectiveness, Influencing Factors And Verification of ‘Rational Farmers’ – Based on Chinese practice

Abstract

Significant progress has been made in environmental management since 2016, when crop rotation and fallow were introduced in heavy metal-contaminated areas. The result shows that the satisfaction of farmers with the treatment effect of heavy metal pollution and their income after crop rotation and fallow was higher. Using the cumulative logistic regression model, this paper makes an empirical study on the factors influencing of 400 households in 10 villages and towns of 4 districts and counties in Hunan Province. The results show that education level, pollution degree have positive influence on the satisfaction degree of environmental governance and income, but family income has a negative influence. Age level has positive influence on the satisfaction degree of environmental governance, but negative influence on income.