Knowing and Doing: The Perception of Subsidy Policy and Farmland Transfer

doi:10.3390/su11082393

	Knowing and Doing: The Perception of Subsidy Policy and Farmland Transfer
	Zhang, Yali 1,2; Wang, Yihan 3; Bai, Yunli 1,2
刊名	SUSTAINABILITY
	2019-04-02
卷号	11 期号:8 页码:15
关键词	farmland transfer perception of subsidy policy small-scale households moderate-scale households
ISSN号	2071-1050
DOI	10.3390/su11082393
通讯作者	Bai, Yunli(baiyl.11b@igsnrr.ac.cn)
英文摘要	Farmland transfer is conducive to the rational allocation of farmland resources and scaling of agricultural production in China. The Chinese government launched a pilot program to subsidize moderate-scale farmland management in 2016, yet the perception of the program and its effects are rarely empirically tested using micro-level data. Using data on 523 households extracted from a rural household survey, the Probit and Tobit model results determined a significant positive impact of the perception of moderate-scale subsidies on both farmland transfer behavior and farmland transfer area. If the household knows about the moderate-scale subsidy policy, then it is 19.2% more likely to have moderate-scale land endowment, and the household has 17.626 ha more inflow land than that who do not know the policy. The results show that only 5% of the households know the moderate-scale subsidy policy, thus hindering the process of farmland transfer. Additionally, high levels of educational attainment and non-agricultural income promote farmers' decisions to transfer farmland and to expand farmland areas for moderate-scale households. However, age, household size, the family dependency ratio, and non-agricultural labor are obstacles to farmland transfer. The findings imply that the government should adopt a more effective policy transmission mechanism to increase the proportion of knowing the subsidy policy for both small-scale and moderate-scale households.
资助项目	Key Deployment Project of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China[ZDBS-SSW-DQC] ; National Key Research and Development Plan of China, P.R. China[2016YFE0113100]
WOS关键词	LAND RENTAL MARKETS ; CHINA EVIDENCE ; FOOD SECURITY ; BEHAVIOR ; FARMS ; SIZE ; MIGRATION ; COUNTRIES ; ZHEJIANG ; IMPACT
WOS研究方向	Science & Technology - Other Topics ; Environmental Sciences & Ecology
语种	英语
出版者	MDPI
WOS记录号	WOS:000467752200206
资助机构	Key Deployment Project of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China ; National Key Research and Development Plan of China, P.R. China
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://ir.igsnrr.ac.cn/handle/311030/59581]
专题	中国科学院地理科学与资源研究所
通讯作者	Bai, Yunli
作者单位	1.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Geog Sci & Nat Resources Res, Beijing 100101, Peoples R China 2.Chinese Acad Sci, Ctr Chinese Agr Policy, Beijing 100101, Peoples R China 3.China Univ Geosci, Sch Econ & Management, Beijing 100083, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Zhang, Yali,Wang, Yihan,Bai, Yunli. Knowing and Doing: The Perception of Subsidy Policy and Farmland Transfer[J]. SUSTAINABILITY,2019,11(8):15.
APA	Zhang, Yali,Wang, Yihan,&Bai, Yunli.(2019).Knowing and Doing: The Perception of Subsidy Policy and Farmland Transfer.SUSTAINABILITY,11(8),15.
MLA	Zhang, Yali,et al."Knowing and Doing: The Perception of Subsidy Policy and Farmland Transfer".SUSTAINABILITY 11.8(2019):15.