Journal
CHINA ECONOMIC REVIEW
Volume 69, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.chieco.2021.101680
Keywords
Exit from agricultural production; Agricultural mechanization services; Land abandonment; Land transfer
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- National Social Science Foundation of China [20FGLA004]
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The development of agricultural mechanization services (AMS) can reduce the probability of smallholder farmers exiting agricultural production through land abandonment, but increase the probability through land renting-out. Further analysis shows that the emergence of large farm operators and the increase in land size rented by them induce smallholder farmers' exit through both land abandonment and land renting-out.AMS also increases market demand for land transfers and marketization of land rentals, leading smallholder farmers to exit through abandonment of fragmented and distant land plots as land markets develop.
Developing agricultural mechanization services (AMS) is commonly regarded as an important step in the modernization of smallholder farmers in China. However, given the increase in the opportunity costs of agriculture and the high cost of AMS, further study is needed to determine the relationship between AMS and smallholder farmers' exit from agricultural production. In this paper, data from the China Family Panel Survey collected in 2017 and 2019 are used to investigate this issue. Our findings show that the development of AMS reduces the probability that smallholder farmers exit from agricultural production though land abandonment, but increases the probability through land renting-out. Further analysis shows that with the emergence of large farm operators and the increase in land size rented by large farm operators, the development of AMS induces smallholder farmers' exit from agricultural production through both land abandonment and land renting-out. We also find that AMS can increase the market demand for land transfers and the marketization of land rentals, and as land markets develop, AMS induce smallholder farmers' exit through the abandonment of fragmented and distant land plots.
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