An Analysis of Farmer Water User Association Management and Its Influence Factors

Famers' satisfaction is the direct manifestation of water management performance.Participatory rural survey data is used to analyze farmers' satisfaction of Gaotai County,GansuProvince.The content is about 288farmers' satisfaction of Water Users Association Management.Logistic model is established to quantitatively analyze the factors which impact farmers' satisfaction.The result show that:the factor affecting farmers' satisfaction arrange is the adequacy of water supply,timeliness of irrigation,reasonable of water price,irrigation takes time,transparency of financial,infrastructure construction and maintenance,fairness of water use.adequacy of water supply,timeliness of irrigation,reasonable of water price,transparency of financial,fairness of water use are the factors affecting farmers' satisfaction of WUA management.Infrastructure construction and maintenance does not significantly impact farmers' satisfaction.Based on the results,the correlative policies and advice are provided to improve farmers' satisfaction and promote farmers' participation in the WUA water resources management.