An Empirical Study On The Influence Of Farmer Entrepreneurship Resource Acquisition

In recent years, with the continuous development of economy, farmers’ entrepreneurial awareness and enthusiasm continue to heat up. As the main way to increase farmers’ income, farmer entrepreneurship is an important way to change the way of rural development and farmers’ life style as well as to develop the rural productivity. To successfully create a new enterprise, peasant entrepreneurs need a variety of resources.However, farmers don’t have access to enough entrepreneurial resources of high quality by themselves.As a result, they need to obtain the resources from outside. Meanwhile, in order to solve the “Issues concerning Agriculture, Countryside and Farmers”, the Chinese government constantly promotes the construction of infrastructure and improves all kinds of administrative departments and their functions. In short, the Chinese government solves the current problems in rural areas by encouraging farmer entrepreneurship. On the other hand, other problems faced at present in rural areas such as solving farmers’ employment and increasing farmer’s income,etc. can be solved by encouraging the farmers to be selfemployed.However, at present, no due attention is paid to the farmers’ entrepreneurship practice and guaranteeing the relevant system. In addition, the theorists also lack of systematic research results about the analysis of the factors influencing the farmers’ entrepreneurship.Especially in the context of information age, access to resources including policy resources,financial resources and information resources has become the factor of urban entrepreneurial effect to which domestic and foreign scholars pay a lot attention. Only the access to the resources of the analysis of the effects of the farmers’ entrepreneurship is lacked. Therefore, the paper is aimed to present a preliminary analysis of the farmers’ entrepreneurship and their entrepreneurial performance from the perspective of resource acquisition, in order to bridge the gap in present research field.Based on the theories of resources acquisition and the farmers’ entrepreneurship, this paper selects the following resources including policy resources, financial resources and information resources as the key factor in the access to resources. In the survey of farmers’ entrepreneurial behavior and performance, a total of 1716 samples of the following counties such as Fengcheng County, Ningdu County, Yushui County, Dongxiang County,Wuning County, Linchuan County, Yongfeng County, Yuanzhou County, Shangrao County, Leping County is taken for statistical analysis. The distribution、age、gender、education and skills of the subjects are taken as basic characteristics. Besides the contact with government officials and the bank staff as well as senior executives, the governmental policy support 、 the difficulty degree of policies and capitals and other information acquisition including the competitors ’ information are obtained as the targets of resources acquisition. Through the empirical research on the farmers ’ entrepreneurialbehavior and performance, the factors influencing farmers’ entrepreneurial behavior and performance are analyzed. And the analysis results are as follows:First, in the analysis of the farmers’ entrepreneurial behavior, it is easy to find that the following characteristics are significant at 1% including the subjects ’ gender and literacy level、whether they have connection with government officials and have accepted skills training or not; the marital status of the subjects are significant at 5%; while whether they have connection with the bank staff are significant at 10%.Secondly, in the analysis of the farmers’ entrepreneurial performance, the following factors including the market share、operating income of the entrepreneurs founded by the farmers as well as the farmers’ genders are 1% significant; whether they have connection with executive officers and the the farmers’ age are 5% significant; and the government support 、 the difficulty level of obtaining information from competitors and the educational level of the farmers are 10% significant.Thirdly, on the basis of empirical research, proposals about the optimization of resource acquisition are put forward:(1) to strengthen the farmers’ entrepreneurship training;(2) to strengthen the social network construction and improve the capital advantage;(3) to complement the rural entrepreneurial financial system;(4) to remove the institutional predicament of farmers’ entrepreneurship;(5) to reduce the comfort threshold of corresponding policies.