Land Use Transitions and Farm Performance in China: A Perspective of Land Fragmentation

Wang, Shukun; Li, Dengwang; Li, Tingting; Liu, Changquan

doi:10.3390/land10080792

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“…Most household heads had a junior high school education level. These household and individual characteristics were consistent with those described in the existing literature [41][42][43]. It is worth noting that there were significant differences between corn silage and corn grain in terms of irrigation mode, farm size, whether they had suffered disasters, dairy farm location, and household head age.…”

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confidence: 86%

“…Farm size affects the technical efficiency of production and income [43,46,47], and is referred to as the scale effect in agricultural economics. Compared with corn grain, corn silage requires large professional machines during harvesting, thus imposing higher requirements on the land scale.…”

Section: Heterogeneity Analysis: Farm-scale and Distance To A Dairy Farmmentioning

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Corn Grain or Corn Silage: Effects of the Grain-to-Fodder Crop Conversion Program on Farmers’ Income in China

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The Grain-to-Fodder Crop Conversion Program (GCCP) in China mainly promotes the green and sustainable development of grain crops, economic crops, and silage crops by subsidizing livestock farms to encourage farmers to plant silage crops, such as corn silage and alfalfa silage. In this context, this study assesses the impact of planting silage crops on farm household income. Based on a survey of 495 households in Henan and Hebei Provinces, China, we first constructed a theoretical model of the program’s effect on farmers’ income, and then used an ordinary least squares (OLS) method to estimate the magnitude of the GCCP on farmers’ income. To identify endogeneity and further test the stability of the results, we adopted instrumental variable estimation, subsample estimation, and matching methods. The GCCP significantly increased smallholder farm income. Compared with growing corn grain, corn silage increased income by approximately CNY 101/mu. Meanwhile, corn silage reduced the capital input cost of farmers by 10.71% per mu and labor input by 26.6% per mu. Heterogeneity analysis revealed that farmers who plant corn silage on a large scale, closer to dairy farms, have higher incomes. Few scholars have empirically analyzed the impact of GCCP on farm household income from a micro-farm household perspective. This study enriches the empirical literature on the effects of the GCCP on farmers in China, which can help policymakers understand policy implementation.

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Corn Grain or Corn Silage: Effects of the Grain-to-Fodder Crop Conversion Program on Farmers’ Income in China

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“…By contrast, Wang et al, evaluate the reasons for and consequences of land fragmentation in China. They deem repeated land divisions, typical of conventional agriculture, to be the main source of the problem [25]. Despite the geographical differentiation of reasons behind land fragmentation, researchers worldwide commonly believe that this is an adverse phenomenon and that land consolidation is a necessary procedure.…”

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Automated Processing of Data in the Comparative Estimation of Land Value during Land Consolidation Works

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Estimation of the value of land, underlying the design of constituent plots of the farmstead, is a decisive element of the complex procedure of land consolidation and exchange. Correctly estimated value of agricultural land is a prerequisite for adequate and equitable delimitation of land plots to improve the living conditions of local residents and ensure efficient and profitable agricultural activity. The dynamic development of technology contributes to the development of multiple tools, considerably improving design works and field surveys in the land consolidation process. The world reference literature also gives numerous examples of surveys to optimise the methods for estimating a land value for consolidation projects. However, in our opinion, despite a vast collection of self-designed calculation methods, available sources insufficiently address the optimisation of existing methods based on the current legal framework and implementing practices. This paper presents a self-designed solution for the fully automated performance of complex comparative estimation of land based on the existing cadastral data and a simplified array showing the estimated value. The tool resulted in developing a set of data for directly importing the outcomes of calculations into land surveying software supporting steps of the land consolidation process. Following detailed evaluation, the proposed self-designed solutions were implemented at the Subcarpathian Office of Land Surveying, and Agricultural Areas in Rzeszow for land consolidation works in the Subcarpathian voivodeship in southeastern Poland.

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“…Arid and semiarid areas are not only important food production bases in China (Li et al, 2021), but also ecologically fragile areas (Huang et al, 2019;Xu et al, 2021). Facing the dual needs of food security and ecological safety, mapping the amount and distribution of fragmented cropland is the basis for making decisions on the consolidation and removal of cropland (Xiong et al, 2020;Vijay and Armsworth, 2021), and it will also support the sustainable use of sandy areas (Lyu et al, 2020;Wang et al, 2021). The identification of fragmented cropland, which covers a small area but is very common, is limited in many ways, and the quantity and spatial distribution of fragmented cropland are not yet known.…”

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Identification of fragmented cropland in arid and semiarid sandy areas: a case study of horqin left rear banner

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Zheng

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The sustainable development and utilization of sandy areas in arid and semiarid regions is of strategic importance to ensure both food and ecological security. The unique geographical environment of these areas and uncontrolled exploitation by farmers lead to large amounts of fragmented cropland. Despite government management, the quantity and distribution of these fragmented croplands is unknown, and accurate identification of the region’s fragmented croplands can provide data to support the sustainable use of sandy areas. We propose a method for identifying fragmented cropland based on scale transformation. Small-scale fragmented cropland is approximately represented at larger scales, so we apply small-scale high-resolution remote sensing images to identify features and obtain information at a large scale, i.e., the ratio of fragmented cropland area. By correcting the cropland areas identified from low-resolution remote sensing images and using them as the basis for the resulting calculation, more accurate identification can be 1 at a large scale. In this study, this method was applied based on remote sensing images with 0.54 and 30 m resolutions that were acquired during the same period, using Horqin Zuoyihou Banner as the study area. The results showed that (1) there was 13,637.08 hm2 of fragmented cropland in Horqin Zuoyihou Banner due to precipitation and terrain topography, mainly in the central and western regions and 2) identification at the sample point scale and plot scale were positively correlated in area and showed a consistent distribution. Therefore, accurate and efficient identification of fragmented cropland can be achieved through scale transformation.

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Land Use Transitions and Farm Performance in China: A Perspective of Land Fragmentation

Cited by 16 publications

References 48 publications

Corn Grain or Corn Silage: Effects of the Grain-to-Fodder Crop Conversion Program on Farmers’ Income in China

Corn Grain or Corn Silage: Effects of the Grain-to-Fodder Crop Conversion Program on Farmers’ Income in China

Automated Processing of Data in the Comparative Estimation of Land Value during Land Consolidation Works

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