Farmland Transfer Patterns And Household Long Term Agricultural Investment Behavior

Rural land fragmentation and its small scale management are the obstacles on our country's agriculture shifting to large scale,mechanization and agricultural modernization,while the circulation of farmland contracted management right has become the main path to solve the problem,which is the only way to realize the operating of appropriate farmland scale.Depending on the dominant force in the current farmland circulation,this paper divides the farmland transfer into farmland transfer controlled by farmers and farmland transfer controlled by government.In reality,because of the particularity of the rural land system in our country,there are great differences in the scale of farmland transfer and the stability of property right for the farmland transfer to households,especially for scale management of farmers,the existence of these differences will inevitably lead to different agricultural production and operation behavior and stability expectations,which all affect the decision making differences of farmers' agricultural production investment.However,the farmers' agricultural investment,especially irrigation,land leveling and organic fertilizer are important to the agricultural production,increasing soil fertility and increasing agricultural production efficiency,it is also a major problem directly related to the long-term stability and sustainable development of agriculture and the realization of scale and food security of the major issues.Therefore,under the background of farmland transfer,it is of great practical and theoretical significance to study the the influence of the current two modes of farmland transfer on farmers' agricultural production investment.First of all,this paper based on the summary and review and comments on the current domestic and foreign related literature,combining two different modes of practice of the land transfer,the use of property rights theory,government function theory and the theory of two kinds of production decision-making land transfer pattern formation mechanism,and analyze the evolution trend of farmland transfer mode;laying a foundation for practical experience for the theoretical analysis and empirical analysis below;Secondly,focuses on two different types of farmland transfer patterns caused by the stability of land property rights and farmland transfer scale differences,and the impact of long-term investment in agricultural production caused from this mechanism is the empirical analysis part lays the theoretical foundation;Then,based onthe peasant household survey data of Nanyang region in Henan province,the paper adopts the instrumental variable method of two-stage least squares to estimate the model by constructing the flow model for the measurement of the farmers long-term investment impact of agricultural production,which is on the basic of the farmland transfer of peasant households and government dominance.Finally,the paper puts forward policies and suggestions on the aspects from clarify the role of government,bring the government into role play and enhance intermediary services.Through the theoretical and empirical analysis,we can make the following conclusions: Firstly,the farmland transfer under government dominance makes the land management of farmers whose farmland is shifting to more stable,the scale of agricultural land is larger and the agricultural production efficiency is higher.Besides,its long-term investment willingness and agricultural production levels are significantly higher than that of spontaneous flow transformation of farmers.Secondly,under the guidance of the government,in the process of farmland transfer,the costs of transfer on transaction reduced significantly,which is more advantageous to realize the land scale and specialization of production and operation,thus improving the enthusiasm of farmers long-term agricultural production investment whose lands are shifted into.Thirdly,in the process farmland transfer controlled by farmers,the standardization and stability of the farmland circulation contract can create a good investment conditions on agricultural production for farmers whose lands are shifted into,which will be more conducive to formulating the long-term and stable expectations of production and operation,thus enhancing its ability on long-term investment in the agricultural production.