Land rental market, off-farm employment and agricultural production in Southeast China: A plot-level case study
Land rental market, off-farm employment and agricultural production in Southeast China: A plot-level case study
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东南地区土地租赁市场、非农就业与农业生产：地块级案例研究
DOI：
10.1016/j.chieco.2010.06.002
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发表时间：
2010-12-01
影响因子：
6.8
通讯作者：
Qu, Futian
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作者：
Feng, Shuyi;Heerink, Nico;Qu, Futian
本文对赣东北三个村52户215块土地租赁市场参与和非农就业对土地投资、投入利用和水稻产量的影响进行了地块层面的分析。我们的发现表明，租用额外土地的家庭相对更具生产力，但与先前研究发现地块的保有权状况影响土地投资水平的结果相矛盾。我们进一步发现，非农就业对水稻产量没有显著影响。这一结果与前人的研究结果相矛盾，早期研究发现非农就业的负面失业效应主导着正面的收入效应。另一个新发现是，在当地非农场工作的人倾向于从种植绿肥转向在他们的稻田里使用有机肥。我们的结论是，进一步刺激仍处于起步阶段的土地租赁市场发展的政策，可以显著促进中国东南地区的水稻增产。我们的结果的另一个含义是，对于持续增长的非农就业可能会对中国保持粮食生产自给自足的目标产生负面影响的担忧，目前对我们研究的地区没有那么重要。(C)2010 Elsevier Inc.保留所有权利。
This paper performs a plot-level analysis of the impact of land rental market participation and off-farm employment on land investment, input use, and rice yields for 215 plots cultivated by 52 households in three villages in Northeast Jiangxi Province. Our findings show that households that rent extra land are relatively more productive, but contradict results of earlier studies which found that tenure status of plots affects the level of land investments. We further find that off-farm employment does not significantly affect rice yields. This result contradicts those of earlier studies which found that the negative lost-labor effect of off-farm employment dominates the positive income effect. Another novel finding is that people working locally off-farm tend to switch from green manure planting towards the use of organic manure on their rice plots. We conclude that policies that will further stimulate the development of land rental markets, which is still in its infancy, can contribute significantly to higher rice production in Southeast China. Another implication of our results is that worries about the negative impact that the continuously growing off-farm employment may have on China's goal to remain self-sufficient in grain production are less relevant at the moment for the region examined in our study. (C) 2010 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.