Matching Between The Scale Of Management Of Agricultural Land And Agricultural Production

The modest scale management is a logical step and final direction for the developmentof agricultural modernization and industrialization, and it is also the inherent requirement ofthe agricultural productivity,s development. The Hexi Corridor is a famous inland irrigationareas in northwestern China. it is the most important base for marketable grain productionand cash crops in Northwest areas. It owns fertile soil. So it has many inherent advantagesfor agriculture land scale management. In practice, it is very important for us to doresearches on the method of determine the appropriate scale of management, ensure theoptimal scale of operation and estimate matching attribute between the appropriate scale ofoperation and the labor, agricultural machinery according to the actual situation and thequality of the contractor and other conditions in Hexi Corridor.On the basis of agricultural land moderate scale management related theory, this paperanalyzes various methods of determining the moderate scale of agricultural landmanagement. According to the collected data I build the production function econometricmodel of moderate scale of agricultural land management, calculate the moderate scale,finally, I analyzes matching attribute between the land scale, labor and agricultura lmachinery. I have draw four conclusion after the above research:⑴Agricultural production was in the stage of decreasing returns to scale in Hexiarea,so there exists the optimal inputs and best fit of the various factors of production. In thethree input factors, labor, capital and land,s output elasticity respectively were0.03,0.09,0.84,land contribution to the production is the largest, followed by capital, laborhad no influence. So it is important for increase farmers’ income to encourage agriculturalland transfer and development of agricultural land moderate scale of management. ⑵Under the existing technical conditions, existing labor farmland scale and householdfarmland scale respectively were0.55hm~2/person and1.11hm~2/household, the optimalscale respectively were2.57hm~2/person and5.23hm~2/household in Hexi corridor. Theoptimal size is much larger than the existing scale, we should accelerate agricultural landtransfer and promote moderate scale management of agricultural land.⑶Under the modest scale of agricultural land management, the demand of labors were22.23million, there are72.87million surplus labors, labor surplus rate was77%in HexiCorridor. Only turned the surplus labor force to non-agricultural sectors, we have achievedeconomies of scale of agricultural land operated.⑷Under the modest scale of agricultural land management, the demand ofagricultural machinery were40,889units, the idle agricultural machinery were243,824units, idle rate was88%. We should strengthen the cooperation between farmers, reducethe purchase of farm machinery inputs, take full advantage of the agricultural land itssupporting tools to improve their utilization.