Abstract This paper researches into the four mechanisms that the agricultural technology progress impacts the farmers’ income: to increase labor productivity, to improve the products’ quality, to prompt the diversification, and to promote the labor transfer. The effects vary according to the mechanisms. The final influence depends on comprehensive effects of four mechanisms. This paper studies the effect by the method of simultaneous equations, and the result indicates that the Agricultural Technology Progress has negative effects on farmers’ income by increasing the labor productivity, which the Agricultural Technology Progress Contribution Rate increases 1%, the farmers’ income decreases 0.6116%; whereas it has positive effects on farmers’ income by improving the products quality, prompting the diversification and promoting the labor transfer, which the effects are 1.1584%、0.2724% and 0.4752%. The final influence of four mechanisms is positive, which is 1.2947%. Comparing the effects of different mechanisms, it illustrates that it is the most important way to increase the farmers’ income by developing the high quality and efficient agriculture, by implementing agricultural brand of agricultural products constantly.
WANG Ai-Min,LI Zi-Lian. A Study on the Impact Mechanism about Progress of Agricultural Technology to Farmers’ Income. Economic Survey, 2014, 31(4): 031.
2014, Vol. 31 
