Influencing Factors of Householders’ Transferring out Cultivated Land under the Background of Urban and Rural Integration

Rui Zhang, Hong-an Xiao and Wen-xiu Zhang

Asian Agricultural Research, 2011, vol. 03, issue 03, 5

Abstract: Factors influencing householders’ transferring out the cultivated land are analyzed from the aspects of farmers’ individual characteristics, farmers’ family features, resources endowment features and external environmental features. And based on the results of the questionnaire survey of 252 households in Chengdu City, the effect of each factor is analyzed through building the dual preference model of Logistic. The result shows that 65.87% of householders have transferred out their cultivated land and proportion of non-agricultural incomes, stability of land ownership, per capita area of cultivated farmland, comminution of cultivated farmland, transferring price and distance to town have relatively significant effect on farmers’ transferring out cultivated land. Non-agricultural industries should be developed with great efforts and reasonable transferring prices of cultivated land fixed. Law on Land Contract in Rural Area is to be practically implemented and the steady peasants’ vocational skill training system and rural social security system established. Moreover, investment in rural infrastructure should be strengthened to improve the transportation conditions in rural area and promote the market development of cultivated land transference effectively.

Keywords: Agribusiness (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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