Farm Size, Agricultural Mechanization and Technical Efficiency--An Empirical Study on Grape Producers in China

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10.2991/icesame-16.2016.187How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Farm size; Agricultural mechanization; Grape; Technical efficiency; Stochastic frontier analysis

Abstract

This paper attempts to examine the impact of agricultural mechanization on technical efficiency of grape producers with different farm size by using stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) approach as well as survey data of 1690 farmers in Hebei, Liaoning, Zhejiang, Shandong and Xinjiang Province. The results show that technical efficiency of grape producers in different farm size has increased significantly as the increasing of agricultural mechanization; there is a positive impact of agricultural mechanization on rural income with a small farm size while a negative impact when farm size is large. Therefore, moderate scale management should be promoted, the mode of production should be transformed and agricultural mechanization should be accelerated.

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© 2016, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Lei Deng
AU  - Ruimei Wang
AU  - Weisong Mu
AU  - Jingjie Zhao
PY  - 2016/03
DA  - 2016/03
TI  - Farm Size, Agricultural Mechanization and Technical Efficiency--An Empirical Study on Grape Producers in China
BT  - Proceedings of the 2016 International Conference on Education, Sports, Arts and Management Engineering
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 850
EP  - 856
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/icesame-16.2016.187
DO  - 10.2991/icesame-16.2016.187
ID  - Deng2016/03
ER  -