An Empirical Study Of Appropriate Scale On The Family Farm In Zhejiang Province

With the improvement of market system and the rapid development of economy,the family-contract responsibility system forced the confrontation began to render,such as farmland finely operation the land-use capability was low and small farmers difficult to dock big market.Views about encouraging farmland circulation and promoting agricultural land moderate scale management were recognised by many scholars,some policy documents of the government also promoted agricultural land scale management change.The No. 1 document in 2013 first proposed the concept of "family farm", it not only pointed out the future development direction of agriculture but it also triggered a national hot to carry out the family farm.Family farms emphasized scale operation of agricultural land,but facts also proved that too blindly expand the scale of farmland caused lower benefit, "How big the scale should be" has became the focus of our attention.Then not just basing by scale only,it need moderation but not "one size fits all", determining the scale of the family farm scientifically has became particularly important.This paper took the survey data of 40 grape family farms in Zhejiang province as the research object,based on the point view of farmers,using the means of the data envelope analysis method in the CCR BCC SE-DEA model, this paper appraises and analyzes family farms’ operation efficiency, pure technical efficiency and scale efficiency.Thus to investigate the relationship between the land scale of operation and performance,then determined the farm inefficiently and scale area(increasing、remaining、decreasing) and evaluated the sorting rule of farm size and the corresponding efficiency value, so that confirming the optimal appropriate scale of operation to the farm. The results showed that the family farm as a whole still did not get rid of a wicked cycle production management way, still mainly depended on increasing production factors to gain more output from the angle of efficiency value;from the point of redundancy, the redundancy of farmland input was the most severe in the farm,which was the main reasons caused the inefficient for the family farm,then followed by labor redundancy;from the perspective of the returns to scale,the scale of grape growing class still so small,there was a big room to improve.In addition, for further calculation and analysis to all farm with SE-DEA model, concluded that regional scale in 25 to 35 acres of farm was the best moderate scale for grape growing class.Based on the foregoing analysis, advice could be put forward:First,improve the supply system of urbanization,build the whole mechanism of the land conversion.Second, strengthen training on professional farmers, improve the comprehensive quality of farmers.Third,further improve the supportive policies,Guide the family farms large-scale operation.