Mechanisation Outsourcing and Agricultural Productivity for Small Farms: Implications for Rural Land Reform in China

Sheng, Yu; Song, Ligang; Qian, Yi

doi:10.22459/cnseg.07.2017.13

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“…The basic success of China's development path compared to India's or Latin America's in terms of the agrarian question has been avoiding a mass of landless or miserable rural population in the countryside. Instead, Chinese farming was distinctly established with marked small-scale and family-based features that contributed to sustain the fast economic growth and to achieving self-sufficiency in rice, wheat and corn -thus challenging modernization discourse in agriculture that only largescale farming works (Sheng, Song and Yi, 2017). Also, agricultural total factor productivity in China grew at an average of 3.1% a year between 1978 and 2015, which is almost three times the global average of 1.3% and slightly higher than Brazil (2.7%) in the same period, as graph 7 shows.…”

Section: Holding Inequalities Back Iii: the Agrarian Questionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…To encourage land transfers and to accelerate land consolidation, in 2015 China's State Council amended the national Land Law by formally separating land operation rights from land contract rights. The directive, for the first time, allowed land contract rights to be legally transferred through market mechanisms (Sheng, Song and Yi, 2017).…”

Section: China Brazil Worldmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…But most importantly, in most of the cases, land contract rights continue to be on peasant's names. In official statistics, the average size of farms in China in the early 1980s was 0.73 hectare, declining to 0.53 ha in 2003 and then rising moderately to 0.61 ha in 2013 4 (Sheng, Song and Yi, 2017). The change in Chinese land contracts and uses in recent years has been a significant modification for Chinese agrarian pattern, but it shows an equitable access to land when comparing to international levels.…”

Section: China Brazil Worldmentioning

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Inequalities and capital accumulation in China

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Guimarães

Braga

2019

Brazil. J. Polit. Econ.

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This article contributes to the debate on income and wealth distribution in China by analyzing the main characteristics of the Chinese accumulation pattern that determine its distributive dynamics in a comparative perspective. After a period of rapid growth of inequalities, coupled with improved living conditions for all distribution deciles, inequalities have stabilized in China since the mid-2000s. Globally, China is today in a distributive pattern worse than Western Europe or Japan, but it is more egalitarian than the United States and far from the world inequality frontier defined by Brazil, India, South Africa and the Middle East. In this article, we scrutinize three characteristics of the regime of accumulation in China that mitigate the capital-concentrating tendency: 1. the financialization process with Chinese characteristics, 2. the strategic share of State ownership in the economy, 3. its trajectory over the agrarian question.

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Section: Holding Inequalities Back Iii: the Agrarian Questionmentioning

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Guimarães

Braga

2019

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“…Therefore, small farmers are unwilling to purchase large agricultural machines. When a small farm does own machines, most of these are often outdated and inefficient (Sheng et al., 2017). These obstacles constrain productivity growth in China.…”

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Adoption patterns and productivity impacts of agricultural mechanization services

Qiu

2022

Agricultural Economics

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Agricultural mechanization services (AMS) have emerged as a viable and effective solution for helping farmers gain access to machinery equipment in developing countries. This study investigates the simultaneous decision-making regarding multiple mechanization services and the causal impacts of the AMS on land productivity among Chinese smallholders. We find that: (i) The ratio of offfarm wage to AMS price, or the wage-rent ratio, has a significant positive effect on AMS adoption; the sequential adoption of AMS starts with power-intensive followed by control-intensive production tasks, (ii) Switching to AMS in plowing, transplanting, and harvesting increases rice yield by 48.0 kg, 23.7 kg, and 7.9 kg, respectively, and (iii) The AMS of pesticide spraying significantly decreases yield but the negative effect can be mitigated with professional service providers and effective labor monitoring, highlighting potential moral hazards associated with AMS when monitoring is costly. Simulation illustrates that increased AMS adoption can significantly enhance food security in China.

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“…Y Zeng et al (2016). bei Y Sheng et al (2017),. ypač didelę reikšmę mechanizuotos žemės ūkio paslaugos turėjo smulkiems ūkiams, susiduriantiems su darbuotojų trūkumu ir neturintiems galimybių didinti dirbamos žemės plotų.Prie panašių išvadų priėjo ir Y Ji et al (2011).…”

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2018

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Vilniaus Gedimino technikos universiteto Ekonomikos mokslo krypties disertacijos gynimo taryba: Pirmininkas doc. dr. Rima TAMOŠIŪNIENĖ (Vilniaus Gedimino technikos universitetas, ekonomika-04S). Nariai: prof. habil. dr. Romualdas GINEVIČIUS (Vilniaus Gedimino technikos universitetas, ekonomika-04S), doc. dr. Eglė KAZLAUSKIENĖ (Vilniaus Gedimino technikos universitetas, ekonomika-04S), prof. dr. Astrida MICEIKIENĖ (Aleksandro Stulginskio universitetas, ekonomika-04S), prof. habil. dr. Baiba RIVŽA (Latvijos gyvybės mokslų ir technologijų universitetas, ekonomika-04S). Disertacija bus ginama viešame Ekonomikos mokslo krypties disertacijos gynimo tarybos posėdyje 2018 m. birželio 1 d. 9 val. Vilniaus Gedimino technikos universiteto Senato posėdžių salėje.

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Mechanisation Outsourcing and Agricultural Productivity for Small Farms: Implications for Rural Land Reform in China

Cited by 6 publications

References 28 publications

Inequalities and capital accumulation in China

Inequalities and capital accumulation in China

Adoption patterns and productivity impacts of agricultural mechanization services

Ūkininkų ūkių investicijų į žemės ūkio techniką efektyvumo didinimas

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