Rental rates of grain land for consolidated plots and their determinants in present-day China

doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2019.05.037

	Rental rates of grain land for consolidated plots and their determinants in present-day China
	Xin, Liangjie; Li, Xiubin
刊名	LAND USE POLICY
	2019-07-01
卷号	86 页码:421-426
关键词	Agricultural scale management Grain land rental rates Determinants China
ISSN号	0264-8377
DOI	10.1016/j.landusepol.2019.05.037
通讯作者	Xin, Liangjie(xinlj@igsnrr.ac.cn)
英文摘要	To promote its agricultural competitiveness, China must expand the scale of farming. Due to the country's distinct land system, renting land is the main way to expand the scale of farming in China; however, a national supervision system of land rental rates has not been established. This study aims to investigate how much land rental rates are, how they vary regionally, and what factors impact them. The amount of rented farmland in China has increased steadily in recent years. In 2016, 35.1 percent of the national total farmland was recorded as being rented out, and land rental rates have been rapidly increasing. In the fourth quarter of 2017, rental prices for irrigated land and rain-fed land were 1763 and 1370 US dollars (Base year = 2014; 1 USD = 6.5 RMB), respectively. For farmers of large farms, rent has become the largest cost related to agricultural production. Rates in the main agricultural production regions and the regions around developed cities are significantly higher than those in other regions. Land quality, land area, land tenure, road access, grain prices and subsidies are important in explaining grain land rental rates. Unexpectedly, the rental prices for larger consolidated plots are lower than those for smaller consolidated plots, and a scarcity of funds may be the main cause of this pattern. We suggest that to actively promote agricultural scale management, China's government should continue to improve agricultural infrastructure such as irrigation conditions and roads, secure land tenure, and stop intervening in market prices and subsidizing larger farms.
资助项目	National Natural Science Foundation of China[41571095] ; National Natural Science Foundation of China[41161140352]
WOS关键词	AGRICULTURAL LAND ; FARMLAND ABANDONMENT ; TENURE SECURITY ; MARKETS ; VALUES ; IMPACT ; CAPITALIZATION ; INVESTMENTS ; ALLOCATION ; EFFICIENCY
WOS研究方向	Environmental Sciences & Ecology
语种	英语
出版者	ELSEVIER SCI LTD
WOS记录号	WOS:000472686800040
资助机构	National Natural Science Foundation of China
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://ir.igsnrr.ac.cn/handle/311030/58478]
专题	中国科学院地理科学与资源研究所
通讯作者	Xin, Liangjie
作者单位	Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Geog Sci & Nat Resources Res, 11A,Datun Rd, Beijing 100101, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Xin, Liangjie,Li, Xiubin. Rental rates of grain land for consolidated plots and their determinants in present-day China[J]. LAND USE POLICY,2019,86:421-426.
APA	Xin, Liangjie,&Li, Xiubin.(2019).Rental rates of grain land for consolidated plots and their determinants in present-day China.LAND USE POLICY,86,421-426.
MLA	Xin, Liangjie,et al."Rental rates of grain land for consolidated plots and their determinants in present-day China".LAND USE POLICY 86(2019):421-426.