Research On The Regional Diversities Of Households' Income's Impact On Farmland Transfer

Farmland is the fundamental of peasants. But on one hand, as the development of the economy and society, land demands expands constantly. On the other hand, as the variation in employment, income and so on, households as a kind of micro economical subject change a lot in production and lifestyle, as well as the transition of cognition level. Because of these, complexes of leaving and being dependent on farmland cross, and the farmland transfer exists generally but intricately. At the same time, fragmentary agricultural production with low profits calls for enlargement. Also land transfer is the households'choice of optimizing farmland disposition.As a kind of rational behavior, farmland transfer is affected by demographic situation of household, employment situation of household, economic situation of household, resources of household and others. This paper starts with households' income to discuss how the income affects farmland transfer and the differences of the impact among different areas.Using questionnaires, this research chooses some rural localities in Anhui, Jiangsu and Shanghai in the middle and lower reaches of Yangtze River as cases to collect data. After that, summarize predecessors'studies and investigate the impact on farmland transfer and it's regional diversities of household's income in the way of correlation analysis and regression analysis based on SPSS. The major content and conclusions include these sections below:The first section is comparative analysis on survey. The results show that from Fengxian to Baoying, as the decrease of the economical level, the trend presents a little ascent. From Baoying to Funan, as the decrease of the economical level, the farmland transfer lags behind. Speaking of inflow and outflow, the results show that compared with developed localities, the undeveloped ones prefer farmland inflow to outflow and depend the farmlands more.The second section is correlation analysis between household income and farmland transfer. During this section the author divide income into three parts: agricultural income, non-agricultural income and agricultural subsidy. Specifically and preliminary, non-agricultural income has some but limited correlativity with farmland transfer. In spite, households with low non-agricultural tend to choose farmland inflow or no transfer. On the contrary, farmland transfer affects households' agricultural subsidy. In addition, there are mutual effect between agricultural income and farmland transfer.The third section is the logistic regression analysis on farmland outflow. Based on SPSS, the author imports households' income as well as many other factors into logistical model to analyze their impact on farmland outflow. Generally, it shows that the level of non-agricultural income has a positive impact on farmland outflow in contrast with agricultural income, descending degree with economical improvement. What's more, in the developed cases, the level of non-agricultural income affects farmland outflow more than agricultural income in contrast with undeveloped cases.The fourth section is the logistic regression analysis on farmland inflow with the same way as the above. It shows that in the developed areas, the farmland inflow is so infrequent that nothing could affect it. But generally, in the middle developed areas, the level of agricultural income has a positive impact on farmland inflow in contrast with non-agricultural income. Also in the undeveloped localities, the level of agricultural income has a positive impact on farmland inflow with a non-significant impact from non-agricultural income.The last section includes major conclusion, enlightenment and some deficiency. The author raises some advice and effort direction.