Do land renting-in and its marketization increase labor input in agriculture? Evidence from rural China

Tongwei, Qiu ^[1] ; Luo, Biliang ^[4] ; Boris Choy, S.T. ^[2] ; Li, Yifei ^[3] ; He, Qinying ^[5]
1. [1] South China Agricultural University
  
  South China Agricultural University
  
  China
2. [2] University of Sydney
  
  University of Sydney
  
  Australia
3. [3] Capital University of Economics and Business
  
  Capital University of Economics and Business
  
  China
4. [4] National School of Agricultural Institution and Development, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, China
5. [5] College of Economics and Management, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou City Tianhe Distinct Wushan Road South China Agricultural University College of Economics and Management Room 906, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province 510642, China
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Localización: Land use policy: The International Journal Covering All Aspects of Land Use, ISSN 0264-8377, ISSN-e 1873-5754, Nº. 99, 2020
Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
- There exist problems of land abandonment and low-efficiency land use when China is undergoing active rural-urban migration. Whether increasing land scale can attract more labor engaged in land use is important to increase land-use efficiency and relieve labor shortage in agriculture. This paper uses data from the 2015 China Household Finance Survey to assess the relationship between land renting-in and labor input in agriculture. The results show that land renting-in increases labor input in agriculture. With higher land rents and profit motives, more labor in lessees’ households will be engaged in agriculture. Further analysis indicates that there is no difference in labor input in agriculture between lessees transacting with acquaintances and those transacting with non-acquaintances for the increasing marketization of land rentals between acquaintances in today’s China. Our analysis implies that developing land rental markets and promoting the marketization of land rentals are important approaches to land use sustainability and relieving labor shortage in agriculture, which has great policy implications for countries with rapid rural-urban migration and abandoned arable land.