Study On Large-scale Grain-production Households' Behavior Of Operation In Heilongjiang Province

Today, China's grain production faces the current situation as follows: little cultivated land per capita, poor quality, serious shortage of spare farmland resources and even its decrease with years; grain supply -demand relation remains in long-term tight equilibrium state. For many years every Central No. 1 Document points out that it is the top priority to ensure Chinese food security, which has very important strategic significance. Along with the speed of industrialization of China constantly quickened and a series of policy beneficial to peasants implemented, Large-Scale grain-production households, as a major operating subject, have emerged in the national rural area, which marks agricultural management mode transformation and embodies the agricultural productive force development direction. The behavioral cognition and intention of Large-Scale grain-production households affect their grain production enthusiasm; and operation behavior directly determine land output rate, grain output, the international competitiveness of agricultural products. Current study on miniature farmers'behavior is too general and fails to dig deep into this problem by focusing on Large-Scale grain-production households. Therefore, under a food security background it is an important practical significance to analyze the mechanism of behavior formation, influencing factors and behavioral choice performance in theory and in practice.Using the theory of management, behavioral economics, social psychology and a large set of first-hand household-level survey data from Large-Scale grain-production households in Heilongjiang province, reference existing research achievements, this dissertation constructs theoretical framework based on the previous conclusion, the standard and the empirical, qualitative and quantitative analysis method. Firstly, the dissertation describes the theory and enlightenment, as well as defines related concepts and content. Secondly, the problem of feature, fact and performance is announced through empirical analysis of behavior of land, labour, capital, technology and marketing based on cognition and intention. Finally, the dissertation concludes with policy recommendations based on theory and demonstration.The dissertation consists of eight chapters; the main conclusions of study are as follows: (1) the cognition of Large-Scale grain-production households is affected by endowment and their intention is stronger. Land transfer which is more medium low yield cropland is the main path, and Large-Scale grain-production households operate Gain-commercial crops and consider cost-effectiveness to expand the scope of operation. (2) Management size and unit area labor quantity displays an inverted"U"tendency, the quantity of female increases and that of male stays the same. Scale operation exists the effect of increasing returns to scale, but appears elements against efficiency configuration. The quality of labour is divided into four primary types: Male-rich experience, Male-little experience, Female-rich experience and Female-little experience. Male or rich types than others experience play more impact on family economic efficiency. (3) It is main capital source channel to loan and self-fund to Large-Scale grain-production households. Short-term current assets more invested than long-term fixed assets. Efficiency of current assets or fixed assets and management size displays an inverted"U"tendency. Pesticide, fuel oil and water- electricity are the most efficiency, or renting farm machinery and Purchasing. Endowment has differently important influence on investment scale. (4) The attitudes of technology for Large-Scale grain-production households are mostly follow-up adopters to pursue the maximum income. The result of technology demand is, farming, breeding new breed, pesticides, fertilizer and machinery techniques. The factor of technology is mainly family economic basis, the cost and risk of technical input. Getting technology mostly is through learning by action. Management size and farmer households'production technical efficiency displays an inverted tendency, endowment has difference effect on the technical efficiency. (5) Large-Scale grain-production households who consider price, cost and risk mainly sale grain by retailers and grain brokers, and ask for information. Number and income displays a"U"tendency. The basic motive grain storage is to Reserve for rations and increase price in 90.22% of specimen. The number of grain storage takes up 0-10% of the total gross product. Grain storage per farmer is 12972.11.Knowledge, mental and subjective desires have positive effect on the number of sale, while Social relations on the other hand. (6) The policy recommendation is four areas: to build a good external environment, to enhance scale operation intention, to invest rural human capital, to perfect rural Labour market, to sound socialization service system, to establish safeguard mechanism to transfer risk, to develop information system, to found professional associations organized.The dissertation's innovation mainly has four points: (1) using factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis discusses the degree of cognition and the factors of intention. (2) Establishing Tanslog Stochastic Frontier Production, Function Model analyzes effect on the quantity and quality to enhance family economic efficiency. The conclusion is that capital investment has more effect on the family economic efficiency than labor, and scale operation exists the effect of increasing returns to scale. The quality of labour is divided into four primary types: Male-rich experience, Male-little experience, Female-rich experience and Female-little experience. Male or rich types than others'experience play more impact on family economic efficiency. The attitude towards labour and labour market continuous development has positive effect on family economic efficiency. (3) Family technical efficiency is 62.23% on average, the maximum value of that is 71.92% in 100 - 130mu scale group. Management size and farmer households'production technical efficiency displays an inverted tendency, endowment has difference effect on the technical efficiency. Using Slogit model, based on prospect theory, the dissertation analyzes the factors of sale for Large-Scale grain-production households. The conclusion is that knowledge, mental and subjective desire have positive effect on the number of sale, so do social relations.