Research on the Influence Mechanism of Land Tenure Security on Farmers’ Cultivated Land Non-Grain Behavior

Jizhou Zhang, Xiaojing Li, Shouhong Xie and Xianli Xia ()
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Jizhou Zhang: College of Economics and Management, Northwest Agriculture and Forestry University, Yangling, Xianyang 712100, China
Xiaojing Li: College of Economics and Management, Yantai University, Yantai 264005, China
Shouhong Xie: College of Economics and Management, Northwest Agriculture and Forestry University, Yangling, Xianyang 712100, China
Xianli Xia: College of Economics and Management, Northwest Agriculture and Forestry University, Yangling, Xianyang 712100, China

Agriculture, 2022, vol. 12, issue 10, 1-15

Abstract: Cultivated land planting structure is directly related to China’s food security. The Central Rural Work Conference in 2021 pointed out that to ensure food security, attention should be paid to the adjustment of planting structure. Therefore, it is necessary to explore whether land tenure security has an impact on farmers’ cultivated land non-grain behavior. Based on the micro survey data of 550 farmers in the Guanzhong Plain, this paper explores the impact of land tenure security on farmers’ cultivated land non-grain behavior with the help of the OLS model and the Binary Probit model, and further explores its internal transmission mechanism through the mediation effect model. It is found that land tenure security significantly promotes farmers’ cultivated land non-grain behavior. After replacing model estimation, core variables for robustness tests, and solving endogeneity problems, the research conclusion is still valid. The analysis of the influence mechanism shows that land tenure security affects farmers’ cultivated land non-grain behavior by increasing land transfer and agricultural productive investment. Among them, agricultural productive investment has the greatest impact, followed by land transfer. In addition, the study also found that land tenure security can promote their cultivated land non-grain behavior by strengthening their credit availability for farmers with low fragmentation. Heterogeneity analysis results show that off-farm employment and social services can effectively alleviate the impact of land tenure security on farmers’ cultivated land non-grain behavior. This paper provides a new research perspective for analyzing the incentives of cultivated land non-grain from the micro-mechanism. At the same time, it revealed the inner root of the government’s predicament in the governance of cultivated land non-grain. It provided a new reference for the government to formulate new policies for managing non-grained cultivated land.

Keywords: land tenure security; cultivated land non-grain; land transfer; productive investment; credit availability (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q1 Q10 Q11 Q12 Q13 Q14 Q15 Q16 Q17 Q18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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