Study On The Crop Planting And Production Managing Behavior Of Local Peasant Households And Migrant Peasant Households In Shanghai

With the development of secondary industry and tertiary industry, the speeding-up process of urbanization, more and more local farmers in Shanghai choose to make living and engaged in non-agricultural work in downtown area. Meanwhile, more and more migrant farmers from other regions in China lease land in the suburbs of Shanghai and engage in agricultural activities. According to the Fifth National Census, migrant labors have accounted 17 percent of the labors who engage in agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and fishery, and migrant farmers have gradually become an important productive force in Shanghai suburb agricultural industry.Peasant households in rural areas, as the main unit in economic and social activities, are the basis of regional agriculture development, and their decision-making and acts on planting and production management directly affects the stability and efficiency of regional agriculture development. Local peasant households and migrant peasant households are two main forces in agricultural production in Shanghai suburb, and their production habits and purposes are not the same, which makes two different types of planning and production managing behaviors. Therefore, this dissertation analyzes the characteristics of peasant households in Shanghai, and compares the planting and production managing behaviors of local peasant households and migrant peasant households, based on the crop planting and production managing data of 1,106 peasant households in 10 Shanghai suburb districts and counties from "Dynamic Monitoring and Management System of Shanghai Agricultural Economy" and the survey data of these peasant households in September, 2007.This dissertation is divided into seven chapters:Chapter I: Background and significance of topics. This chapter explains the significance of this study and current research status.Chapter II: Theoretical basis, data sources and research methodology. This chapter describes three definitions of peasant household, peasant household category and production managing behavior, and introduces the theoretical basis, the data source and content.Chapter III: Analysis of suburb peasant households' characteristics. The chapter concludes the characteristics of crop planting peasant households in Shanghai suburb, and analyzes the problems and conflicts of the labor source in crop planting agriculture, and makes some comparison between the characteristics of local peasant households and those of migrant peasant households.Chapter IV: Comparison of peasant households' and peasant households' input behaviors in production. This chapter analyzes the crop selection difference and planting scale difference, and mainly compares local peasant households' and peasant households' expense input and labor input in the planting of rice, vegetable, watermelon and melon.Chapter V: Comparison of local peasant households' and migrant peasant households' production performance. This chapter does analysis on the output performance of the local peasant households and migrant peasant households in the planting of rice, vegetable, watermelon and melon.Chapter VI: Characteristics of local peasant households' and migrant peasant households' production managing behaviors. This chapter analyzes the effect of sales and brand-production behaviors exerting on peasant households' income, introduces the overall sales behaviors of peasant households and their participation in brand-production, and makes summary on the sales behavior and brand-production participation of local peasant households' and migrant peasant households'.Chapter VII: Conclusion and suggestion.