Abstract
<p>This paper uses the farmer household’s model to structure the analytical framework of concurrent business cultivated land use behavior and its efficiency and then uses group comparison analysis and data envelopment analysis (DEA) to analyze the diversity of cultivated land use behavior and efficiency, among different types of concurrent business farmer which is based on the promise of separation not established and investigation data of farmer household. The results demonstrate that the concurrent business types have a significant influence on utilization patterns and farmer household’s behavioral options, different types of farmers’ investment, management and land scale have a big difference. Generally speaking, capital and labor input of concurrent business farmer household are high than that of specialized farmer, concurrent business farmer household Class ? are higher than that of Class ?; and different utilization patterns lead to the difference of cultivated land use efficiency. Moreover, technical efficiency of specialized farmer household is higher than that of concurrent business farmer household Class ? based on the separation was not established, and both of them are higher than that of concurrent business farmer household Class ?. That illustrates land use efficiency of farmer household will reduce as the level of concurrent business increase.</p>
Highlights
With the constant changing of rural economic structure and the implement of Household Contract System, farmer households’ means of production have changed, and farmer households’ resource endowment characteristic appeared diversities, which lead to the heterogeneity of farmer household showing
This paper uses the farmer household’s model to structure the analytical framework of concurrent business cultivated land use behavior and its efficiency and uses group comparison analysis and data envelopment analysis (DEA) to analyze the diversity of cultivated land use behavior and efficiency, among different types of concurrent business farmer which is based on the promise of separation not established and investigation data of farmer household
The results demonstrate that the concurrent business types have a significant influence on utilization patterns and farmer household’s behavioral options, different types of farmers’ investment, management and land scale have a big difference
Summary
With the constant changing of rural economic structure and the implement of Household Contract System, farmer households’ means of production have changed, and farmer households’ resource endowment characteristic appeared diversities, which lead to the heterogeneity of farmer household showing. Compared with specialized farmer household, concurrent business farmer household is a single production unit, puts part of the labor force into industrial or service and others into non-agricultural sectors in order to pursue maximization of family utility, so they engage in both agriculture and non-agricultural activities in a diversified management way. Many studies on the influence of the degree of concurrent business to land use behavior have much confusions and disputes. The empirical research on developed regions farm household from Liang Liutao and Qu futian et al (2008) shows the efficiency of land use of Class Iis slightly higher than that of specialized farmer, and both of them are higher than that of Class II which suggests farm efficiency can be increased when farmers take concurrent business properly, but land use efficiency will be influenced negatively when the level of concurrent business reaches to a certain degree. This paper selects survey region and farmer elaborately based on the farmer model of separability not established, and provids a new angle of confusion above
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