Ji Chen, Guo Hongdong, Jin Songqing, Yang Jin
China Academy of Rural Development, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China.
Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America.
PLoS One. 2017 Jan 27;12(1):e0170861. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0170861. eCollection 2017.
China has recorded positive growth rates of grain production for the past eleven consecutive years. This is a remarkable accomplishment given that China's rapid industrialization and urbanization has led to a vast reduction of arable land and agricultural labor to non-agricultural sectors. While there are many factors contributing to this happy outcome, one potential contributing factor that has received increasing attention is the emergence of agricultural production outsourcing, a new rural institution that has emerged in recent years. This study aims to contribute to the limited but growing literature on agricultural production outsourcing in China. Specifically, this study analyzes factors affecting farmers' decisions to outsource any or some production tasks using data from rice farmers in Zhejiang province. Results from a logistic model show that farm size and government subsidy encourages farmers to outsource while ownership of agricultural machines and land fragmentation have negative effects on farmers' decisions to outsource production tasks. Results also showed that determinants of outsourcing decisions vary with the production tasks that farmers outsourced.
在过去连续十一年中，中国粮食产量均实现了正增长。鉴于中国快速的工业化和城市化进程导致耕地大幅减少，且农业劳动力流向非农业部门，这一成绩尤为显著。尽管促成这一良好结果的因素众多，但近年来出现的一种新型农村制度——农业生产外包，作为一个潜在的促成因素，正受到越来越多的关注。本研究旨在为中国农业生产外包这一虽有限但不断增长的文献做出贡献。具体而言，本研究利用浙江省稻农的数据，分析影响农民将全部或部分生产任务外包的决策因素。逻辑模型的结果表明，农场规模和政府补贴会促使农民进行外包，而农机所有权和土地细碎化对农民外包生产任务的决策具有负面影响。结果还显示，外包决策的决定因素会因农民外包的生产任务不同而有所差异。
