Supplies Of Agricultural Capital: Internal Adjustments And External Dependence

Capital, farmland and labor are the three elements of agricultural production. In modern time, the agricultural development is impossible without capital. The multiple sources of capital reflect the different relationship among farmers, society and the nation. This dissertation explores different functions of the capital raised by farmers, society and the nation as the agriculture develops. And it further induces the characteristics of the supplies of agricultural capital in the process of social system evolvement and socialization in order to understand the transformation in the countryside better.From the research on The Fu Lee village of Yuanjiang City, it can be seen that farmers, society and the nation are interactive in the process of raising agricultural capital. With the improvement of productivity, there is a transition from the traditional agriculture to modem agriculture; however, family is still the basic unity of agricultural production and the participation of society and the nation becomes more and more important because farmers are socialized and the raising of capital can not be free from external influence. With the political, institutional and economic transformation as background, the pattern of internal adjustment and external dependence concerning agricultural capital raising is formed ultimately.