Study Of Affecting Factors And Technical Efficiency Of Oolong Tea Farmers' Productive Investment In Minnan

Based on the analyse of Fujian tea industry from the perspective of tea farmer, a case study was conducted to investigate of 153 tea farmers'production and procession in anxi county, Fujian Province. Furthermore, an econometric model was established to analyze the influencing factors and their effect direction of tea farmers'production and procession. The Stochastic frontier production fuction was used to carculate the techonlogy efficiency of tea farmers'investments and their influencing factors. In addtion, the further investment willingness in tea industries. The main conclusions were as the following:1. the quantitative analysis of productinve investiment from 153 tea farmers in An Xi county delivered that tea farmer's family labour force, tea garden area , family general income of tea farmer ,time of a household being engaged in tea production, the ratios of tea invisible income to family and area difference were the mian influencing factor of tea farmers'productive investment. Howerve, the risk influce on productive investment was not significant. The gerneal fanily income was the most important influencing factors for productive investment of tea farmers, the last year's income conditions deciding the next year's investment level. In additions, income and investment interact with each other in absolute amounts. As such, increasing the tea farmers'income are all-important at present.2. The Stochastic frontier production fuction was used to estimate the economic efficiency for tea production and procession. The results showed that there was technology loss for tea production and processing in southern Fujian tea production area. The technical efficiency for sample were from the minimum of 19.49% to the maximum of 89.39%, the average technical efficiency was 64.39% with 16.53% of standard deviation. This showed that if the technology can eliminate inefficiencies and maintain the existing technology and input level, output will still have about 35 percent of improve Spaces. Therefore improving the technical efficiency of production may significantly will increase farmers income and profits assuming constant market prices. factor of technical efficiency analysis results showed that farmers engaged in tea production and processing time, farmers engaged in tea production and processing time of the square, the tea farmers head of the household number of years of education of three explanatory variables for the impact of technical efficiency was not significant;The household head's age of tea farmers, tea Varieties, whether trained, tea earing percent in household income, tea plantations area, virtual variables of villages location type had positive relationship with the technical efficiency. the square of the Tea Garden area owned by Farmers, the regional differences have negative effects on technical efficiency.3. the subjective wishes of the tea farmers for future development of tea production and processing and the possible producion behavior were further analyzed. The result showed that 71 samples(about 48.6 percent of total farmers) in the selection may increase the investment in tea industry, 55 farmers (about 37.7 percent of the farmers) could maintain the status quo and remain basically unchanged. Therefore 86.4% of the tea farmers were likely to remain the original operating scale. because of various reasons, There are some farmers will significantly reduce the scale of tea production and processing, which accounted for some 13.7% farmers.Multiple Logistic model analysis showed that if other conditions remain unchanged, economic factors are the main promotion force for farmers to further invest in tea industry, the higher the overall yield, the higher willess will showed for Taiwanese tea farmers to invest in tea industry, The older the household head, the less wished to further invest in tea production; the more tea graden area or the more tea incomes percent, the more willness for tea farmers to further invest in tea production. The household head's age, tea family lobor, tea villige location and goeverment had less effects on farmers's behaviors for production investment in olong tea.So, in order to increase productive investment farmers technical efficiency,further promote tea industry, Protect farmers productive investment necessary for economic efficiency and enthusiasm, it is necessary to guide and encourage farmers to carry out specialized production and the appropriate scale of operation; establish a perfect system of social services, in particular the promotion of tea production and processing technologies and farmers training; enhance the matching tea production and processing facilities, foster regional brands of tea, the tea production to increase income of farmers.