The Impact of Family Capital on Farmers’ Participation in Farmland Transfer: Evidence from Rural China

Xu, Jing; Jing, Huang; Gu, Xin

doi:10.3390/land10121351

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“…Heilongjiang, Shaanxi, Inner Mongolia, and Hubei account for more than 40% of China's grain production, whereas Qinghai, Gansu, Sichuan, Chongqing, Guizhou, and Guangxi produce more than 40% of the country's cash crops. From a national perspective, planting cash crops is likely in the west and southwest and grain crops in the northeast, northwest, and central regions, demonstrating the accuracy of the sample data; it is consistent with the divide between China's main grain-producing regions and non-major grain-producing regions 5 .…”

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confidence: 68%

“…Accordingly, in order to ensure national grain security, the Chinese government has emphasized farmland redlining, grain self-sufficiency, and the absolute security of staple foods in every published "Central No.1 Document" since 2013. Developing land rental markets is a commonly suggested method for increasing grain yields and farm productivity in China [5]. The argument is that land fragmentation is a major obstacle to increasing farm productivity [6].…”

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How Do the Different Types of Land Costs Affect Agricultural Crop-Planting Selections in China?

Zhang

Yuan

Wang

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Land

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Land costs in agricultural production are rapidly becoming apparent and increasing in light of the market’s rapid development in rural China. This study examines how agricultural operators’ farming decisions are affected by explicit and implicit costs associated with land transfers. This study first categorizes explicit and implicit land costs theoretically and demonstrates that both types of land costs affect farmers’ crop-planting selections. The study then uses the most recent household survey data from the Chinese Family Database (CFD) and the China Household Finance Survey (CHFS), released in 2017, to empirically test the theoretical analysis and examine the mechanisms underlying the impact of land costs on crop-planting selections. This study makes the case that higher land costs, both explicit and implicit, cause agricultural operators to grow more crops for cash and less for food. The impact of land costs on planting selection can vary depending on the heterogeneity of production areas and geography. In terms of production area heterogeneity, the explicit cost of land has a greater influence on planting decisions in non-major food-producing areas, whereas the implicit cost of land has a greater influence on planting decisions in major food-producing areas. In terms of topographic heterogeneity, the less flat the terrain, the more growers would choose to grow cash crops. A complementary relationship between the two forms of costs is also suggested by this study’s confirmation that explicit and implicit land costs can positively reduce each other’s impact on cropping decisions. Additional mechanism research revealed that explicit and implicit land costs impact crop crop-planting selections. The explicit cost of land primarily affects the local land transfer market effect, whereas the implicit cost of land affects the land transfer service.

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confidence: 68%

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How Do the Different Types of Land Costs Affect Agricultural Crop-Planting Selections in China?

Zhang

Yuan

Wang

et al. 2022

Land

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“…Thirdly, household characteristics [ 22 ], For example, the education level [ 23 ], physical condition and age of the household head influence the willingness to transfer farmland [ 24 ]. Ali’s studies showed that female-headed households are more inclined to rent out land due to the deficiencies of labour force in the household.…”

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A study of the impact of land transfer decisions on household income in rural China

Wang

Wang²

2022

PLoS ONE

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As an important measure to enhance the allocation of land resources and achieve moderate scale operation in China, land transfer has an irreplaceable role in giving full play to the social and economic value of land. This paper uses data from the China Family Panel Studies in 2018 and applies OLS, PSM and mediator effects to study the impact of land transfer on household income. The results of the study show that: firstly, participation in land transfer can significantly increase the income level of farming households, but the impact of different land transfer acts on household income varies. Secondly, the age and physical condition of the household head, the number of agricultural and non-agricultural members in the household and the poverty status of the household all have a negative effect on household income. On the other hand, the education level of the household head, the household size and the presence of village officials in the household, agricultural subsidies, land titling and land size all have a positive effect on household income. Thirdly, the impact on household income for households that did not participate in land transfer is greater than for those that did. The results of the mediator effect test show that land transfer has a significant effect on household farm income, and that farm income has a full mediator effect, but all have a positive significant effect on household income.

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“…Households with non-agricultural employment choose to sell most of their grain immediately after harvest because these non-agricultural employees generally do not eat at home, and the families need less grain. Meanwhile, non-agricultural employees are generally young and middle-aged labourers and selling most of the maize immediately after harvest can reduce grain management and the marketing burden on other family members (Xu et al , 2021). Moreover, households with savings have a better life and might rely on the market to meet consumption needs (Leight, 2020).…”

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Storage losses, market development and household maize-selling decisions in China

Luo

Dong²,

Han³

et al. 2022

CAER

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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to analyse the impacts of storage losses and market development on the maize-selling behaviours of rural households in China.Design/methodology/approachBased on the survey data of 543 households from nine major maize production provinces in China, the authors introduce storage losses to a household's maize-selling decision-making model and use fractional logit model and ordered probit model to empirically analyse the impact of maize storage losses and market development on household maize-selling decisions in China. To overcome potential endogeneity problems, the authors select the weather at drying (whether bad weather occurs during the drying process) and harvest loss as instrumental variables and re-estimate the model.FindingsThe results show that increased storage losses prompt farmers to increase the proportion of maize sold within three months after harvest and sell maize in advance. Meanwhile, the degree of market development has a significant impact on farmers' maize-selling decisions. Other factors, such as the maize output, non-agricultural employment and awareness of loss control, also affect farmers' maize-selling behaviours.Research limitations/implicationsThe government should promote advanced storage facilities, reduce household storage losses, decrease the phenomenon of centralised sales after harvest and help farmers freely choose the suitable time for sales. The government also needs to strengthen market information releases and publicity, reduce transaction costs and help farmers make reasonable sales decisions.Originality/valueThe authors introduce storage losses as a separate variable in a farmer's grain-selling decision model to empirically analyse the impact of storage losses on farmers' grain-selling behaviours. Moreover, the authors analyse the impact of market development on household grain-selling behaviours in China. These findings can help avoid oversupply in the market during the harvest season and alleviate the pressure on the market from the supply and demand imbalance. These results are also beneficial for farmers waiting for a higher price and increasing their income.

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The Impact of Family Capital on Farmers’ Participation in Farmland Transfer: Evidence from Rural China

Cited by 15 publications

References 51 publications

How Do the Different Types of Land Costs Affect Agricultural Crop-Planting Selections in China?

How Do the Different Types of Land Costs Affect Agricultural Crop-Planting Selections in China?

A study of the impact of land transfer decisions on household income in rural China

Storage losses, market development and household maize-selling decisions in China

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