A Comparative Study Of Farmers’ Management Efficiency After Farm Land Transfer

The land system in China based on the household contract responsibility system had promoted agricultural development. But along with the development of economy, a series of problems have been found, showing that agricultural land system needs to be further improved. Being spontaneous, the transfer of farm land was considered as an emerging phenomenon in the reform of land system. However, the research results available in the literature have not been fully adopted and implemented by the government. This paper focuses on the calculation and analysis of farmers’efficiency after farm land transfer, evaluates the effect of farm land transfer, and offers references for the adustment of the policies of the farm land transfer in our country.The contents of the dissertation:a synthesis of literature on farm land transfer; the rationale of the dissertation and model hypotheses; analysis of the reasons of farm land transfer; an empirical study of the situations about farm land transfer in Fujian; research on differentiation of farmer’s will and behavior of post-farm land transfer; a comparative study of farmers’ efficiency based on DEA(Data Envelopment Analysis) method; study on the Influence factors of farmers’efficiency based on Tobit model; the major findings and policy recommendations. The dissertation discusses the efficiency of different types of households in order to study the effect and the mechanism of farm land transfer.Research progress:First, an empirical study of the situations about farm land transfer is given in Fujian. Second, based on DEA method the farmers’ efficiency of post-farm land transfer was discussed. Third, the influencing factors of farmers’efficiency are analysed with technical efficiency as dependent variable in DEA method.Major results:(1) Three hypotheses are verified;(2) The farmers’ efficiency is fairly low;(3) Transfer effect and scale effect are the reason why management efficiency can be enhanced by farm land transfer;(4) The farmers with higher will of managerial have always been the main force in the agricultural production;(5) The route of farm land tranfer can be found;(6) The key to realize scale effect is that the productive elements should be allocated appropriately;(7) Moderate managment area can be found in agricultural production; And so on.Based on the research, the paper proposes the following policy suggestions:First, the transfer of farm land should be developed rationally. Second, the system of protecting the basic farmers should be set up. Third, encourage the land transfer to the basic farmers moderately. Fourth, providing basic farmers with preferential policies; Fifth, income from agricultural managment should be increased efficiently. Finally, the urban social security system needs to be further improved.In the dissertation, the author points out some opinions on analytic methods and angle of study, including:(1) This article introduces the DEA method into the efficiency analysis of the whole agricultural performance of farmers;(2) Research the indirect effect rather than direct effect of the farm land transfer, which can improve the veracity of data.(3) The differences of will, behavior and management efficiency of farmers, and the route of farm land tranfer were studied which can provide the reference to promote the policy.