Study On Production Efficiency Of Rural Household Under The Background Of Internationalization Of China's Agriculture

With China's accession to WTO, agriculture issues have attracted much attention from government and economic theory community under the background of China's agriculture internationalization. With China's accession to WTO, agriculture issues have attracted much attention from government and economic theory community under the background of China's agriculture internationalization.Under the background of internationalization of agriculture, the factors restricting the increase of efficiency of farm production cover the following aspects at least:tariffs on agricultural products, agricultural production technology, domestic and international market demand, the number of farmers, agricultural business model. Theoretically, we can consider the efficiency of farm production as the integrated function from the above factors. On the terms of increasing farm production efficiency to increase China's efficiency of agricultural production, WTO institutional arrangements require China to decrease tariffs on agricultural products and open agricultural market gradually, which not only rule China's agricultural market facing domestic and international competition but also ask China's agricultural operation model to absorbing advanced technology and utilize international market resources. However, the tier management system in China country, based on the household contract management combining unified and separate format, leads to the lower degree of organization of farmers. The fact that farmers can not become the business entities participating the market competition actually restricts the increase of efficiency of farm production. Therefore, the analysis on pathway of increasing efficiency of farm production is a practical significant topic.The status of China's agricultural economy is more people with less land, low agricultural resource utilization efficiency and low levels of technology, farmers lack of the overall competitiveness. Therefore, under the background of internationalization of China's agriculture, the problem of how to increase efficiency of farm production quickly is to be solved. This thesis states that, the above problem can be divided into four related subprojects, First is how to measure the efficiency of farm production, quantitative analysis of the different forms of efficiency decomposition; Second, the internationalization of agriculture will increase or reduce the productivity of small farmers systematically, qualitative and quantitative analysis of the factors that lay the foundation for further study of the path; Third, list the factors affecting efficiency of small farmers, and analyze these factors work through what kind of transmission mechanism acting on the efficiency of small farmers; Fourth, the government should take strategy guide to go with the potential of agricultural comparative advantage of development. To solve the above problems, this thesis studies farmer's production efficiency from three levels, namely:inter-provincial level, crop level and household level.This thesis summarized the existing literature for farmers and their model, international agriculture exposition and interpretation, together with the measurement method of the efficiency of agricultural output as well as its impact on output pathways and mechanisms affecting the efficiency of farm production, and ultimately developed a set of rigorous proved research system. After that, based on the key focus on analyzing pathway of agricultural internationalization and increase of efficiency of farm production, this thesis measured the efficiency of farm production from the above three levels using data envelopment analysis (DEA). After that, regression model was applied to conduct empirical analysis from the above three levels, Finally, based on the analysis of factors and mechanism restricting efficiency of farm production, the thesis proposed comprehensive policy and suggestions for improving the efficiency of farm production, and improving the international competitiveness of the agricultural products based on the proved result by empirical test.Objectively, this thesis combining the analysis of efficiency of farm production under the open background, is a pioneering research attempt, which could bring the following main innovation points:1. Under the open agricultural background, the basic international path on the enhanced efficiency of farm production is studied; 2. Data envelopment analysis (DEA) as an empirical analysis of the efficiency of farm production, and specific from the provincial level, crop level and the micro-level of small farmers is studied; 3. Through empirical analysis of efficiency of farm production, some difficult problems of how to increase farmers'efficiency under the background of internationalization of China's agriculture are studied to some degree and range.Admittedly, the factors influencing farmer production efficiency are not confined to the analysis in this thesis, at the macro level it also relates to government policies and the resultant system arrangement. Therefore, how to study farmer production efficiency both on the macroscopic and microscopic levels should become the next step study.