Abstract
Since smallholders accounted for a high proportion of 98.1% among the 207 million agricultural business households across China, it is particularly important to study the impact of farmland size on the provision of public goods attached to the public sector industries from the perspective of the irrigation collective action in rural areas. Based on the survey data of 283 villages in China, this paper finds that the farmland size has a positive impact on irrigation collective action, although the average of per capita farmland area is only 0.214 hectares in each household of China. Therefore, it is necessary to promote the farmland scale operation by land circulation, so as to improve the ability of collective action and the development of public sector industries in rural areas of China.
Highlights
Since the reform and opening up, China’s agriculture and rural areas have undergone earth-shaking changes
In order to maintain the smooth progress of agricultural production activities, farmers are more inclined to maintain the rural public goods through collective action, so as to reduce the high cost of agricultural production through collective action, and contribute to the success of rural irrigation collective action
This paper mainly discusses the impact of arable land resource endowment on rural irrigation collective action from the perspective of village level
Summary
Since the reform and opening up, China’s agriculture and rural areas have undergone earth-shaking changes. Smallholders serve as the most fundamental unit of agricultural production in China, and the most fundamental force that plays a major role in the governance of rural public affairs in China. The key to achieving the goal of “effective governance of rural public affairs” is to effectively promote peasant households to participate in the governance of rural public affairs, especially to solve the current problem of insufficient supply of rural public goods. How to effectively encourage peasant households’ to participate in the supply of rural public goods has become the top priority in solving the tough problem of insufficient supply of rural public goods and imbalance between supply and demand
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