The Dispute over the Path of Moderate Scale Management of Agriculture: Land Scale or Service Scale
MEI Fuchun1, MA Kaixuan2
1. School of Economics and Management, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou 450046, China; 2. School of Humanity & Law, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou 450046, China
Abstract Moderate scale operation is the only way to develop modern agriculture, but there have differences between service management scale and land management scale for a long time in China. Based on the perspective of actual input and the time series of grain input-output in China from 1990 to 2018, this paper empirically analyzes the appropriateness of grain production scale and the relationship between the two paths by using production function and cash cost-income ratio. The results show that compared with the current agricultural production conditions, China's actual scale of grain production is basically moderate. In practice, the two paths of service scale and land scale coexist, complement each other, and are not mutually exclusive. The symbiosis of the two paths is embodied in the coexistence of time and complementarity in space, which is due to the time-space mismatch of agricultural production factors in China for a long time. The policy significance of these findings is that the government should formulate and improve relevant promotion policies from the perspective of equality and complementarity, that is, to implement inclusive policies for all possible realization paths, so as to promote the formation and improvement of the appropriate scale of agricultural management. At the same time, the government should implement differentiation policies for micro-subjects with different endowments in order to optimize the combination of agricultural production factors and form appropriate scale operation capacity as soon as possible.
MEI Fuchun,MA Kaixuan. The Dispute over the Path of Moderate Scale Management of Agriculture: Land Scale or Service Scale. Economic Survey, 2022, 39(2): 046.
2022, Vol. 39 
