Empirical research on farm households’ attitude and behaviour for cultivated land transferring and it’s influencing factors in China

Mei-qiu CHEN¹, Tai-yang ZHONG², Bing-juan ZHOU¹, Hong-sheng HUANG¹, Wei-jia HE¹

1Department of Land Resources and Environment, Jiangxi Agricultural University

2Department of Territorial Resources and Tourism, Nanjing University

Abstract:cultivated land transfer is an important way to deal with the conflict between the cultivated land fragmentation of landholders and the large-scale agricultural modernization in china. The farm households, as the direct user of cultivated land, play a key role in the cultivated land transfer. For this paper, a survey of 1 396 farm households in 74 villages, 64 townships, 42 counties in Jiangxi, the traditional agricultural province, was conducted. Using this information, a logistic regression model was employed and the attitudes of those farm households were analyzed using the family characteristics, the household economic factors and the resource endowments. The results showed that there is a little incentive for the cultivated land transfer and no macro-environment exists for the cultivated land transfer market because of the low economic benefits. Farm households which moved out to urban areas for employment play the most important role in the cultivated land transfer and become the largest force to drive the cultivated land transfer out. Family income also affects the cultivated land transfer; the income of farm households transferring cultivated land in is much lower than those of the cultivated land transferring out. in addition, the topographic characteristic of cultivated land is also an important factor influencing the cultivated land transfer; it is easier to transfer land out if the terrain is flat, but it is more difficult if the land is fragmented.

摘要：耕地流转是解决我国耕地所有者耕地破碎化与大规模农业现代化矛盾的重要途径。农户作为耕地的直接使用者，在耕地流转中起着关键作用。本文对传统农业大省江西省42个县64个乡镇74个村的1396户农户进行了调查。利用得到的信息与数据，采用logistic回归模型，利用家庭特征、家庭经济因素和资源禀赋分析农户的态度。结果表明：由于经济效益不高，耕地流转的积极性不高，耕地出让市场不存在宏观环境;进城务工的农户在耕地流转中起着最重要的作用，成为推动耕地流转的最大力量。家庭收入也影响着耕地流转;耕地转入的农户收入远低于转出耕地收入的农户。此外，耕地的地形特征也是影响耕地流转的重要因素;如果地形平坦，土地流转就比较容易，如果土地零散，就比较困难。

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