Abstract
With the accommodative policy and rapid urbanization in China, large-scale migration of rural-to-urban peasants seeking nonagricultural employment has occurred. This has led to farmland rental, which is considered an effective means of land arrangement. Multiple variables were selected to examine the influencing factors of land rental for rural–urban peasants in China by using survey data collected in six core cities of the Pearl River Delta and a logistic regression model. This study revealed that benefits, household members, and urban living conditions and urban integration are factors that affect land rental. According to the results, improvements in working conditions, urban social insurance and urban integration, annual gross household income, and secure land ownership can promote land rental, whereas stronger hometown connections and parenting inhibit land rental. Women and youth excluded from China’s previous land allocation hold complex attitudes toward land rental, with age and sex statistically significant variables affecting land rental. We underscore the influence of family members and urban living conditions for land rental, which were ignored in earlier studies, to provide suggestions for future policy development, with an emphasis on the land rental market and redistribution of idle land.
Highlights
China has a traditional agricultural economy, and its rural policy orientation has changed with the development of the rural economy and society [1]
Consideration is given to the notion that the cultivated land arrangement of migrant peasants is influenced by three key factors: net benefits, urban living conditions and urban integration, and household members
XNi are a set of variables related to the economic benefits; XUi are a group of variables representing living conditions and urban integration; and XFi are a set of variables representing household member influence
Summary
China has a traditional agricultural economy, and its rural policy orientation has changed with the development of the rural economy and society [1]. Because of an imperfect land rental market which is lack of the state legal regulations and policy to regulate and restrict the behaviors of the market participants [15,16], a large proportion of rural-to-urban migrants prefer to keep their farmland idle rather than rent it out, resulting in a waste of cultivated land resources. The agricultural land abandoned by peasants cannot be sold and is rarely rented out; second, migrants would rather leave the land uncultivated than renounce their land-use rights which are tied up with the rural household registration to resist the discrimination in the urban areas and ensure future life security.
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