| The farmers' income in China has been increasing very slowly and deteriorating significantly relative to urban population in recent years. This actuality has also drawn great attention. The government has already taken many policies and measures to adjust farmers' income, but the outcomes were almost unsatisfactory. This paper will study the problem of farmers' income from a new angle--land tenure system. This paper argues that land tenure system is the most essential factor that restricts the development of rural economics. Almost all countries and areas rely on the perfect and modernization of the land tenure system to develop their agriculture and rural economics. In China, the existing communal land tenure system with many problems and deficiencies badly invades farmers' land rights, so it is a big obstacle to increase farmers' income. Much research is being carried out in the areas of farmers' income, but there are too little that got hold of the key point. So up to now, there is no effective approach to this difficult problem. Because of this actuality, the source of income will be made clear at first in this paper, it concluded that the property rights determine the income. Obviously, his principle is apply to the rural economics, so the farming land tenure system will determine farmers' income, This point can be abstracted from the compare of the twice system reforms in rural China. And from the compare, we can also find out that the more clear the property right, the more farmers can increase their income easily. Compared to collective farming, Household responsibility system has made great progress in this areas, it brought a rapid increase in agriculture production and farmers' income. The rate of growth fell, however, in the late 1980s. Associated with the new land tenure system have emerged a host of problems, so the further reform is needed. It is argued here that the clearest land rights are likely to provide a solution to the farmers' income problem. |
PDF Full Text Request