An Exploration of Sustainable Scaled-Up Operations for Smallholder Farmers in China: Drawing on International Experience
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| contents | <p class="MsoNormal"><span>China's persistent smallholder farming structure has emerged as a critical constraint on agricultural modernization. This study adopts a farm management perspective, using farmers as the main micro-level analytical unit, to explore viable paths for small farmers in China to overcome their structural difficulties. <a name="OLE_LINK36"></a>The core contradiction that exists in the Ministry of Agriculture of the People‘s Republic of China—the “small farmer’s dilemma”—has the property of four interrelated structural dimensions: insufficient cropland by household units, fragmentation of land holdings leading to a significant increase in production costs, acceleration of land de-agriculture, and systematic failure of land mobility policies. International comparative analyses show that substantial breakthroughs in agricultural modernization, whether state-led structural reforms (Japan), normative land market integration (France), or market-based agricultural integration mechanisms (USA), have always been accompanied by a continuous decline in the number of farmers. Based on these findings, this paper proposes a three-stage institutional framework that our country will jointly advance, including short-term revitalization of the land transfer market; medium-term deepening of land property rights and household registration reforms to establish a "push-pull" exit mechanism; and long-term restructuring of agricultural production entities to achieve sustainable operator renewal. </span></p> |
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| spellingShingle | An Exploration of Sustainable Scaled-Up Operations for Smallholder Farmers in China: Drawing on International Experience huo, yujia <p class="MsoNormal"><span>China's persistent smallholder farming structure has emerged as a critical constraint on agricultural modernization. This study adopts a farm management perspective, using farmers as the main micro-level analytical unit, to explore viable paths for small farmers in China to overcome their structural difficulties. <a name="OLE_LINK36"></a>The core contradiction that exists in the Ministry of Agriculture of the People‘s Republic of China—the “small farmer’s dilemma”—has the property of four interrelated structural dimensions: insufficient cropland by household units, fragmentation of land holdings leading to a significant increase in production costs, acceleration of land de-agriculture, and systematic failure of land mobility policies. International comparative analyses show that substantial breakthroughs in agricultural modernization, whether state-led structural reforms (Japan), normative land market integration (France), or market-based agricultural integration mechanisms (USA), have always been accompanied by a continuous decline in the number of farmers. Based on these findings, this paper proposes a three-stage institutional framework that our country will jointly advance, including short-term revitalization of the land transfer market; medium-term deepening of land property rights and household registration reforms to establish a "push-pull" exit mechanism; and long-term restructuring of agricultural production entities to achieve sustainable operator renewal. </span></p> |
| title | An Exploration of Sustainable Scaled-Up Operations for Smallholder Farmers in China: Drawing on International Experience |
| url | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20423005 |