Performance Evaluation Of The Supply Of Agricultural Infrastructure

Severe natural disasters occur frequently in recent years, it highlights the importance and urgency of the supply of agricultural infrastructure. Agricultural infrastructure supply is a supply of public goods problem, but also a rational allocation of resources problem or an issue of interest, but in the final analysis is a performance issue. Building a theory and method system of performance evaluation of agricultural infrastructure supply is conducive for providing reference on the field of agricultural infrastructure supply management to deepen and refine this research field, can help to optimize the allocation of resources, can be able to contribute to serve the "three rural", is conducive to building a service-oriented government to achieve the equalization of basic public services. Therefore, evaluating the performance of the supply of agricultural infrastructure has important theoretical and practical significance.Based on defining the connotation about the agricultural infrastructure, the supply of agricultural infrastructure, performance evaluation of the supply of agricultural infrastructure, combining with "4E" standard and "IOO" model, the paper construct performance evaluation system of agricultural infrastructure supply based on the "double QE" framework. The paper evaluates the supply of agricultural infrastructure performance from the four aspects such as supply quantity, supply quality, supply efficiency, the equity of supply. Take Tuanjie village for example, the paper probes into the changes of small-scale irrigation and water conservancy facilities supply performance after farmland transfer. Based on evaluating the supply of agricultural infrastructure performance, the paper defines the scope of the main body and its responsibilities and supply mode in the supply of agricultural infrastructure. Finally, the paper draws conclusions based on research, and then makes policy recommendations.The main conclusions are as follows:(1) Over time, the supply quantity of Chinese agricultural infrastructure has increased steadily except Tianjin Zhejiang Shandong Sichuan Henan.However, the supply quantity of agricultural infrastructure has obvious regional disparities. Although the annual growth rate of total and new quantity of agricultural infrastructure in central and western is higher than the eastern region, there is still a big gap between eastern and western regions from the absolute amount of agricultural infrastructure. (2) There is not necessarily inversely between the supply quantity of the Irrigation and water conservancy facilities and the rate of disaster, it depends on how the supply quality of water conservancy facilities. At the present stage the supply quality of the Irrigation and water conservancy facilities is not high. The structure on large, medium and small irrigation facilities is irrational. Due to the construction of old age, the reservoirs are severely damaged, drainage ditches are clogged. Wells increase the rate of drought disaster in the east and west region, and they didn’t play a role in reducing drought disaster rate. The existing institutional arrangements on irrigation facilities are not reasonable. Some farmland water conservancy facilities does not play its due effect in disaster reduction. (3) To ensure supply quantity and quality of agricultural infrastructure is not that all the target, the supply of agricultural infrastructure need to consider optimal allocation of resources, that is investment is minimal when you get the given quantity and quality of agricultural infrastructure. Over time, the supply efficiency of agriculture infrastructure facilities is not necessarily proportional to the level of economic development. The gap of regional supply efficiency of Agricultural infrastructure is large; there is no trend that backward provinces can catch developed provinces, however, all provinces’supply efficiency of agricultural infrastructure convergence in their stable level. Abolition of agricultural tax has a positive impact on the agricultural infrastructure supply efficiency in eastern, but there is a significant negative impact in western. After 2003, the supply efficiency in western region is less than the eastern and central regions. There is a significantly positive correlation between the educational level and the supply efficiency of agriculture infrastructure, a negative correlation between the supply efficiency of agriculture infrastructure and financial funds share of GDP. (4) There are significant regional disparities in the supply of agricultural infrastructure, no matter from the beginning, the program and result equity, the supply of agricultural infrastructure is obviously unfair. From the output perspective to measure the supply of agricultural infrastructure is relatively more equitable, but from the demand perspective to measure the supply of agricultural infrastructure is relatively unfair. From the beginning, the program equity, gap between the three regions is the main reason for supply gap. From the result equity, regional disparity is the main reason for supply gap. Theil index of agricultural infrastructure capital stock is highest in Eastern, followed by the western region, the lowest in central region. (5) Upgrading the performance of agricultural infrastructure should correctly handle the relationship between supply quantity, supply quality, supply efficiency, the equity of supply. The target of agricultural infrastructure is that investment is minimal when you get the given quantity and quality of agricultural infrastructure, and taking into account the fairness of the supply of agricultural infrastructure. Supply quantity, supply quality, supply efficiency, the equity of supply is indispensable in performance evaluation of the supply of agricultural infrastructure. (6) Agricultural infrastructure in the village-wide needs collective action. If the village members participate in this collective action on agricultural infrastructure supply, the supply performance of agricultural infrastructure will be enhanced; if not, supply performance of agricultural infrastructure is difficult to achieve. Large-scale circulation of agricultural land can promote the formation of collective action, so as to enhance the supply performance of agricultural infrastructure.