A Micro-empirical Analysis of Land Fragmentation and Scale Economies in Rural China

Guanghua Wan and Enjiang Cheng

Chapter 9 in China’s Agriculture at the Crossroads, 2000, pp 131-147 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Scale economies in farming have been an important issue in China ever since the much praised rural reform began in the late 1970s (Lu 1985:191; Zhu et al. 1986; Chen 1992). The pre-reform commune system was founded on large-scale operations and collective ownership (recall the famous slogan: yida ergong), which were expected to reap scale economies. Land fragmentation has received little attention until recently (Fleisher and Liu 1992). While decollectivisation has been shown to contribute to agricultural growth (Lin 1992), empirical evidence is lacking on the current status of scale economies and the impacts on output of land fragmentation, brought about by the rural reform.

Keywords: Scale Economy; Indica Rice; Land Consolidation; Tuber Crop; Late Rice (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2000
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DOI: 10.1057/9780333978108_9

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