Is the Small-sized Rural Household More Efficient?
Study on the Inverse Relationship between farms efficiency and farm size is always a hot topic in the agricultural economics, but the farms efficiency is measured by land productivity usually. So the Inverse Relationship (IR) measures the relationship between land productivity and farms scale actually. Using the farm-level micro panel data from Hubei province in China in 1999-2003, the paper, from the multiperspectives of farms land productivity, labor productivity, profit rate of cost, total factor productivity and technical efficiency, discusses the relationship between farms efficiency and farm size, and analyzes the effects of rural household endowments on the farms efficiency. The empirical conclusions are as follows: An overall look in a broader vision should be given to the hypothesis of the Inverse Relationship. Whether the small-sized farm, compared to large-sized one, enjoys the efficiencys comparative advantages depends on the top-priority policy goals.
Farm Farm size Efficiency Inverse relationship
Li Gucheng Feng Zhongchao
College of Economics and Management, Huazhong Agricultual University, Wuhan P. R. China, 430070
国际会议
The 8th International Conference on Innovation and Management(第八届创新与管理国际会议 ICIM 2011)
日本福冈
英文
1247-1259
2011-11-30（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）