Food Subsidies Policy:Peasants’ Motivation And Behavior Of Growing Grain

Food security plays a vital role in human life; the food subsidies policy is a general effective method to support agriculture production. Food is a special complex of "living resources" and "economic resources", policies relative to food have a greater impact on the survival and development of the country than other rural policies. As the main food producer and the object of food subsidies policy, peasants’ motive and behavior of food production, ultimately determine the implementation of this policy effect, when Chinese food subsidies policy have been transformed.This paper takes a typical southern village of Jiangxi Province, Jinxi Village for example, to suppose the peasants "bounded rationality", microscopic tracing the production and practice of the peasants on growing grain, to study farmers’pursuit of utility maximization in the balance of risks, costs and benefits of growing grain. From different attitudes about the growing in different occupation of peasants, we can conclude different social and cultural elements that affect the peasants to grow grain, except for economic and policy elements. Because of the behavior logic "no trouble-making", rural basic level which in a marginal position in the food subsidies policy do not want to pay much attention to state subsidies or grain-growing. The driving force of the subsidies of growing grain has been greatly weakened under the multiple forces acting of market, society, culture, policies. The paper of the end-result is a new modernity changing relationship between the state and peasants. The food subsidies policy is typical representative of the national rural policy from the "take" to the "give". The design and implementation of State policy, the response and choice of peasants to the policy, both to construct the new era of relationship between the state and peasants.