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Effects Of Land Fragmentation On Agricultyral Production In Guangxi By Empirical Study

Posted on:2017-03-01Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:X HuFull Text:PDF
GTID:2309330485999364Subject:Agricultural Economics and Management
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As the biggest developing country in the world, a large population with relatively little arable land is the basic national condition that China faces. The implemetation of the household contract responsibility system, which is mainly characterised by equal division on land usage and household management, has aroused farmers’enthusiasm for production and facilitated agricultural production on one hand, and regularised Land Fragmentation of agricultural land use pattern on the other. With the progress of the technology level on agriculture and contious transform of rural society, negative impact on Land Fragmentation of agricultural land use pattern is becoming increasingly profound. As a result, the implemetation of new technology and new equipment has been blocked; land resources in rural areas has been greatly wasted due to delimited identifier such as ridge etc.; the migration of surplus labor in rural areas is ubiquitous for the sake of common concept "away from village but not the land". All the above have greatly limited the modernization of argriculture and China’s promotion of international competitiveness of agriculture.This paper, based on the field study of 360 farmers from Nanning, LongAn, has obtained mumerous detailed databases of argriculture production. Considering the background of Land Fragmentation, this paper has analyses related activities to agriculture production, and the results indicate that argriculture production is a complicate system and the influence of Land Fragmentation on argricultural production originates from the efficiency of land use, capital investment and labor transfer. With the change of production environment of rural areas, the limitation of Land Fragmentation on capital investment would more intense. From the established production function model, it also proves that Land Fragmentation is harmful to the practice of agricultural production economies of scale and reduces the efficiency of agricultural production, thereby limiting the optimal configuration combinations of the investment of agricultural production factors. In fact, Land Fragmentation in Gaungxi is at a relatively high level, but the microcosmic body of argricultural production do not have a strong reaction towards such a negative impact. Maintaining the current system of agricultural land use is still their best choice.According to the analysis of stakeholder theory, in the change process of Land Fragmentation, the country and farmers would invariably choose corresponding strategy based on their different benefit-cost analysis. Unless the potential profit exceeds the cost of investment, the strategy of the promotion of Land Fragmentation would be chosed, and vise versa. The strategy that farmers undertake also demonstrates that the dameges to the interests of farmer would worsen in the process of Land Fragmentation. Therefore, maintaining the current situation is their optimal choice.In conclusion, in terms of related problems on Land Fragmentation, an all-round, multi-level control measure towards its regulation should mainly consider the following aspects:land transfer safeguard mechanism; integrated land management measures and moderate scale management safeguard mechanism.
Keywords/Search Tags:land, fragmentation, economies of scale, related stakeholders
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