Research On Regional Differences Of Farmers’ Income In Guangxi

Like most of the western provinces,Guangxi still has a large proportion of agriculture, and the rural development face many problems, despite the growth of farmers’income, the situation still is not optimistic. More people with less land, more hills but less arable land, the unreasonable spatial distribution is hindering the coordinated development of the rural areas in Guangxi. Regional differences of farmers’income and obvious geographical distribution of income structure come up owing to many factors. What cause the above phenomenon? How does the specific form evolve? What steps should we take to address these issues? All the things will be meaningful. This article select the data of farmers’ income from2004to2012, use GIS spatial analysis, and the other means to study county income differences and their changes from time and space perspectives. And then try to give relevant influencing factors. Results show that:(1)Since 2004, per capita net income of farmers in Guangxi county made a growth, but with increasing absolute income gap, regional center gravity of the high-grade and low-grade does not reverse, this space will be a long form. (2)Since 2004, the difference of constitute of per capita net income in Guangxi County is more complex, household business income, wage income, property income, and transfer income show out different characteristics, and has constantly changing spatial pattern.(3)Regional differences of farmers’ incomes in West River Economic Belt is more significant, because this area contains the prefectural-level cities who made great achievement in the fields such as agricultural production, industrial processes, economic development, migrant workers since 2004.So it has a significant feature in the geographical distribution. (4)Since 2004, household business income of farmers has shown significant regional differences in ZuoYouJiang old revolutionary base areas. Being the highest proportion of household business income, primary industry income is far more than the second and the tertiary industries, and industry revenue is not the same in different regions. (5)Since 2004, first industry income of Beibu Gulf economic zone has shown significant regional differences. Farmers farming income, forestry income, animal husbandry income, fishery income have different distribution space. (6)Location, agricultural production conditions, regional development strategy, the level of economic development factors drive the spatial and temporal change of farmers’ per capita net income.