作    者:  Tongwei Qiu*（仇童伟）; Biliang Luo（罗必良）

期    刊: 《Applied Economics》

出版时间:  JUN 3 2021  卷: 53  期: 26

DOI: 10.1080/00036846.2020.1870656

论文地址: https://www.webofscience.com/wos/alldb/full-record/WOS:000608320900001

摘    要

Developing agricultural mechanization services has been an important approach to pushing smallholder farmers engaging modern agricultural production in China. However, whether smallholder farmers prefer adopting agricultural mechanization services is still under-analysed. In this paper, we use data covering 3,440 wheat farmers collected from Henan province in China to investigate the links between farm size and the adoption of agricultural mechanization services. The results indicate that an inverted U-shaped relationship between farm size and the adoption of agricultural mechanization services exists. We also find that small farms can input more family labour, and large farms tend to invest in self-owned machinery assets. Our analysis implies that the development of agricultural mechanization services is not inevitable to attract farmers with alternative elements, and smallholder farmers may not be the major groups involved in the market of social services in agriculture in the future.

关键词

Agricultural mechanization services; Farm size; Family labour；Self-owned machinery

基金资助：

National Natural Science Foundation of China [71742003]

National Social Science Fund of China [20FGLA004]

责任编辑：董晓玲

审    定：黄  松