求解中国农业困局：国际视野中的农业规模经营与农业竞争力

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Citation: Haolong XU and Ming LU. Solving the Agricultural Dilemma in China: Farm Scale and Agricultural Competitiveness from International View[J]. Academic Monthly, 2021, 53(6): 58-71. shu

Solving the Agricultural Dilemma in China: Farm Scale and Agricultural Competitiveness from International View

Haolong XU ,
Ming LU

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In recent years, China is suffering the “high production, high inventory and high import” dilemma in agriculture. It is the lagged urbanization that causes the small agricultural farm size and the lack of scale economy. Furthermore, the willingness of farmers to migrate into cities is curbed and land circulation rate is low, because Hukou system discriminates migrants’ access to public service in cities, while agriculture is greatly subsidized. By international comparison, we find that large-farm models are better for improving agricultural competitiveness, while the Japanese model with small-sized farms is very costly. We also find that the countries whose agricultural labor share matches agricultural production share in GDP have more arable land per worker, and consequently have more net cereal exports. If China eliminates the barriers of labor mobility in 2011, its net cereal import may decrease by 89 percent next year.
- agricultural competitiveness,
- arable land per worker,
- scale economy,
- labor mobility,
- urbanization
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Solving the Agricultural Dilemma in China: Farm Scale and Agricultural Competitiveness from International View

Haolong XU
Ming LU

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Abstract: In recent years, China is suffering the “high production, high inventory and high import” dilemma in agriculture. It is the lagged urbanization that causes the small agricultural farm size and the lack of scale economy. Furthermore, the willingness of farmers to migrate into cities is curbed and land circulation rate is low, because Hukou system discriminates migrants’ access to public service in cities, while agriculture is greatly subsidized. By international comparison, we find that large-farm models are better for improving agricultural competitiveness, while the Japanese model with small-sized farms is very costly. We also find that the countries whose agricultural labor share matches agricultural production share in GDP have more arable land per worker, and consequently have more net cereal exports. If China eliminates the barriers of labor mobility in 2011, its net cereal import may decrease by 89 percent next year.

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