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农业经济与管理合辑Agricultural Economics and Management
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| Commercial cash crop production and households’ economic welfare: Evidence from the pulse farmers in rural China |
| MA Ji-liang1, LI Fan2,5, ZHANG Hui-jie3, Khan NAWAB4 |
1 Institute of Agricultural Economics and Development, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, P.R.China
2 College of Economics and Management, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, P.R.China
3 Agricultural Information Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, P.R.China
4 College of Management, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu 611130, P.R.China
5 Macro Agriculture Research Institute, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, P.R.China
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摘要
促进农户经济作物种植能否显著的增加其家庭福利一直是粮食政策的焦点。本研究首先探讨了农户商业化种植食用豆行为的影响因素，并进一步分析食用豆商业化生产如何改善了农户的经济福利。本文使用了2018年至2019年期间收集的848户农户家庭数据集，通过应用Heckman两步法估计了农户家庭商业化食用豆生产的影响因素，并采用内生处理回归（ETR）方法检验了商业化食用豆种植对农户家庭经济福利的影响。结果表明，食用豆市场价格（农户销售价格）、农业技术服务、农户获得贷款途径，以及政府补贴等因素显著的促进了农户商业化的食用豆生产，而生产成本增加和对气候变化风险的认知限制了食用豆农户商业化生产。总体而言，商业化的食用豆生产显著的增加了农户家庭农业收入，但对农户家庭非农收入的影响有限。这一研究结果进一步表明，通过促进农户家庭进行商业化的经济作物生产，并降低农户农产品市场准入的政策可以显著提高经济作物（比如食用豆）农民家庭的经济福利。
Abstract
Whether promoting cash crop production can increase household welfare has long been the focus of the food policy debate. This study first investigated the determinants of household behavior in commercial pulse farming. It then examined how households’ commercial pulse production improves their economic welfare. We used a dataset of 848 households collected from 2018 to 2019 to estimate the determinants of household behavior in commercial pulse farming by the Heckman two-step model. The endogenous treatment regression (ETR) method was employed to examine the impact of commercial pulse farming on household economic welfare. The results showed that factors such as market purchase prices, agricultural technology services, farmers’ access to loans, and government subsidies promoted smallholders’ commercial pulse farming; production costs and perceptions of climate change risks constrained smallholders’ commercial pulse production. Overall, commercial pulse production has increased household farm income but there was a limited impact on household off-farm income. Our findings suggest that policies aiming to increase households’ cash crop production and market access could significantly improve the economic welfare of pulse farmers.Whether promoting cash crop production can increase household welfare has long been the focus of the food policy debate. This study first investigated the determinants of household behavior in commercial pulse farming. It then examined how households’ commercial pulse production improves their economic welfare. We used a dataset of 848 households collected from 2018 to 2019 to estimate the determinants of household behavior in commercial pulse farming by the Heckman two-step model. The endogenous treatment regression (ETR) method was employed to examine the impact of commercial pulse farming on household economic welfare. The results showed that factors such as market purchase prices, agricultural technology services, farmers’ access to loans, and government subsidies promoted smallholders’ commercial pulse farming; production costs and perceptions of climate change risks constrained smallholders’ commercial pulse production. Overall, commercial pulse production has increased household farm income but there was a limited impact on household off-farm income. Our findings suggest that policies aiming to increase households’ cash crop production and market access could significantly improve the economic welfare of pulse farmers.
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Received: 01 March 2022
Accepted: 28 July 2022
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Fund: This work was supported by the China Agriculture Research System of MOF and MARA (CARS-08-G21) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (71904190).
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| About author: MA Ji-liang, E-mail: majiliang@caas.cn; Correspondence LI Fan, Tel/Fax: +86-27-87282679, E-mail: fan.li@hzau.edu.cn; ZHANG Hui-jie, Tel/Fax: +86-10-82106287, E-mail: zhanghuijie@caas.cn |
Cite this article:
MA Ji-liang, LI Fan, ZHANG Hui-jie, Khan NAWAB .
2022.
Commercial cash crop production and households’ economic welfare: Evidence from the pulse farmers in rural China. Journal of Integrative Agriculture, 21(11): 3395-3407.
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