Performance Evaluation Of Shanghai Farming Industry And Production Management Decisions

Agriculture is the foundation of the national economy. The pushing of the construction of the new socialist countryside must insist in centering on the development of rural economy, commit itself to the liberation and development of rural productivity, and promote the steady and consistent increase in grain production, in agricultural productivity and in rural incomes. With the coming of the new century, Shanghai agriculture is undergoing the impact of the incessant weakening of its productive status and gradual tightening of the land resources. It quickens its transformation to the modern urban mode of agriculture. And the government stresses further its functions of macro-control and service-providing in its management over the agriculture. The successful bidding for the World Exposition 2010 brings great opportunities as well as serious challenges to Shanghai agriculture. How to make full use of the limited productive space to bring the advantages of the regional production into full play and how to keep the reasonable production scale to realize the greatest profits of the agriculture have become the urgent problems to Shanghai agriculture. Farming industry occupies a very important place in Shanghai agriculture, not only because its output value makes up the largest proportion in the gross agricultural output value but also because the number of its practitioners is the biggest. To evaluate scientifically the economic operational condition of Farming industry in Shanghai Suburbs, to analyze the input and output of some major crops production, to study the best combination of capital-labor in different categories of crops, to explore the influential factors and orientations of peasants' planting decisions and behaviors, all these are of realistic and theoretical significance to the government making the macro-agricultural decisions and leading peasants to make the reasonable production management decisions.The dissertation consists of eight parts. Chapter One introduces the background, purpose and significance of the research, studies the development of relevant researches both domestic and overseas, illustrates the studying ideas and methods, and points out innovations and deficiencies of the research. Chapter Two is about the collection and arrangement of the primary data. It introduces in detail the sources and categorizations of the sample data as well as the methods of revising and arranging the primary data. Chapter Three is on the development and reform of Shanghai agriculture and the overall operational condition of its Farming industry. It mainlyanalyzes the history of the development of Shanghai agriculture, the present status of the agricultural development and the basic conditions of the development of Farming industry. Chapter Four focuses on the performance evaluation of Shanghai Farming industry. By establishing the performance index evaluation system of Shanghai Fanning industry with the employment of the index of the input, output, cost, profit, productivity and essential factor concentration rate, it conducts a comparative analysis of the production management performance of different crops and different managing modes from both horizontal and vertical sectional views. Chapter Five is about the spatial difference of the input-output and performance of Shanghai Farming industry. It analyzes the distribution of major crops and rotation crops in different districts and counties with the input and output index and some other performance index, and makes an economic distribution map of Shanghai Farming industry. Chapter Six presents the Panel Data analysis of the production management performance of major agricultural crops. It studies the influential factors of the agricultural output and the disparity of influences which these factors exert on different plants. Chapter Seven is production management decisions on Shanghai Farming industry. It seeks out the best capital-labor combination of different crops, that is, the minimization of cost with the present production capacity and the maximization of output with the present cost. It also explores the main influential elements manifested in the choice Shanghai peasants make in selecting between the agricultural plants and economical plants, and studies their importance and influential orientations. Chapter Eight is about the strategies, suggestions and research prospects. It puts forward the strategies and suggestions according to the research results of the previous chapters, hoping to provide reference for the practice of agricultural production and government policy-making. It also elaborates the directions of the future research.The major achievements of the dissertation are the following: First, the establishment of the performance evaluation system of major agricultural crops in Shanghai suburbs, which can be a reference for the optimization of Farming industrial structure through the rather comprehensive assessment of the index of input and output, of cost and profit, and of productivity concerning rice, wheal, rape, vegetables, watermelon and muskmelon, fruit tree and strawberry etc. Second, the categorization of the economical districts of Shanghai Farming industry. By analyzing the input and output of crops in different districts and counties and their management performance, we can divide Shanghai Farming industry into four districts: MinJiaBaoPu district,JinNanFeng district, SongQing district and ChongMing district. And each district has a different direction in the adjustment of Farming industry. Third, the systematic analysis of crop investigation data which contain both the section and time sequence with the Panel Data Model; the exploration of the comprehensive influence all kinds of elements have on the crop output; the seeking out of the best capital-labor combination within each category of crops with the microeconomic model. Fourth, the analysis of the influence of the decision peasants make in determining the planting structure; the exploration of the major influential elements manifested in the choice Shanghai peasants make in selecting between the agricultural plants and economical plants; the studying of their importance and influential orientations. Fifth, the raising of some measurements such as the restructuring of cost and input, promotion of the grain safety, optimization of plant varieties and popularization of the agricultural insurance policies, and some concrete strategies and suggestions.