Research On Risk Identification And Assessment Of Aquiculture Land Transferred From Agriculture Land

Land transfer is doing much good to China’s urbanization drive, as well as an efficient way to generating beneficial land utilization and distribution. It is under the strong force of market economy that some of the agriculture land is being transferred and developed into aquiculture land, which aims to optimize the structure of primary industry and increase farmers’ income. The notion of "Land Transfer" is known to more households as relevant practice being increasingly popular, with a large number of farmers and villages involved. As such, academic theories in this regard are under way and are pushing forward new horizons.Good deals of risks are being triggered by agriculture land transfer, which is known to be a process of changeover of land coverage or use pattern. While these sorts of risks haven’t been covered in relevant research hitherto, this systematic study on risk management of aquiculture land transformed by the plough in "A" town, Jiangsu Province, is quite timely. The status quo of "A" town is summed up through fieldwork including surveys, interviews and questionnaires, and serves as the premise for identifications and judgements of risks in "A" town’s agricultural land transfer. This work might provide a case reference for research on risk management of agricultural land transfer in China.This paper touches on the principles and methods in risk management before and after transferring agricultural land into aquiculture land, based upon the sets of the town and existing theories in this regard. By virtue of decomposition analysis, this paper categorizes three major risks of agricultural land transfer in "A" town, namely, economic risk, social risk and environmental risk. Then it further explores ways, such as Fuzzy Integrated Evaluation, to assess risk degrees. Analytic Hierarchy Process and Delphi method are used to calculate the weight of indicators. The final results show that the overall risks of agriculture land transfer in "A" town is great. Some suggestions are put forward thereafter.