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The Impact of Aging Agricultural Labor Population on Farmland Output: From the Perspective of Farmer Preferences

TL;DR: This article investigated the impact of an aging agricultural labor population on agricultural production and found that the adverse effects of changes in the agricultural population age result more from the agricultural output of older farmers who intend to give up farming.
Abstract: Chinese agriculture is facing an aging workforce which could negatively impact the industry. In this context, research is needed on how work preferences and age of farmers affect agricultural output. This paper attempts to investigate these factors to more fully understand the impact of an aging agricultural labor population on agricultural production. The results show that, in this context of aging, changes in the working-age households have a significant impact on agricultural output. Despite the fact that the impacts of intention to abandon land management were not significant, we can ignore this preference in the workforce. The combination of changes in the composition of the working-age households indicates that 58.53 percent of the agricultural producers will likely quit. This is a potential threat for the future of agricultural development. We also found that elderly farmers who do not intend to abandon farming had higher agricultural output compared to other farmers. This indicates that the adverse effects of changes in the agricultural population age result more from the agricultural output of older farmers who intend to give up farming. This intention adversely affected other elements and reduced investment. Therefore, various forms of training should increase efforts to cultivate modern professional farmers and policies should be simultaneously developed to increase agricultural production levels.

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a "problem" with implications for agricultural productivity, rural poverty and elderly care, drawing on fieldwork in Thailand and interrogate the effects of ageing on agricultural productivity and rural poverty.
Abstract: Farmers are ageing across Asia. This is presented as a ‘problem’ with implications for agricultural productivity, rural poverty and elderly care. Drawing on fieldwork in Thailand we interrogate thi...

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  • ...Suphannachart in Thailand, for example, finds that ‘ … there is no statistical evidence that the rising proportion of ageing workers affects… agricultural labour productivity’ (Suphannachart 2017, 103; also see Guo, Wen, and Zhu 2015)....

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  • ...…ageing © 2019 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group CONTACT Jonathan Rigg jonathan.rigg@bristol.ac.uk School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK 1See, for example, Huang (2012) and Guo, Wen, and Zhu (2015) on China, and Akatiga and White (2015) on Indonesia....

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors combine rural household survey data with statistical data to comprehensively assess and reveal the impact of urbanization and aging population on food security in developing countries, including China.

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed factors that determine farmers' intention to commercialise vegetable-based agribusiness ventures in rural areas and assessed the effect of commercialisation on farmers' income.
Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to analyse factors that determine farmers’ intention to commercialise vegetable-based agribusiness ventures in rural areas and assess the effect of commercialisation on farmers’ income.,The study used a regression approach. Market participation and farmers’ income were hypothesised to be dependent on other external factors. This study employed data compiled from a quantitative survey of 357 farm households located in four major vegetable producing regions of rural East Java and Bali, Indonesia.,Results indicate that household attributes, business environment, supporting facilities and farm characteristics determined farmers to commercialise vegetable farming. Access to credit, seed technology and farm site played high contribution to the market participation. Ultimately, commercial vegetable farming provides an economic advantage regarding increased income. Land fragmentation and status of landholding were identified to influence the net revenue of vegetable farming.,This study has a limitation concerning the number of samples and the availability of data and information. The number of samples is 357 which is about 4 per cent of the total population.,Establishment of vegetable agribusiness terminals with all market infrastructures, adequate access to market information, credit and human capital investment through training and extension services are also required, will boost market participation. Re-structuring land ownership might be the best step to augment farmers’ income, through consolidation of fragmented fertile lands devoted to intensive vegetable farming.,This study was purposely conducted in rural areas where there were subsistence farmers, as this is to improve farmers’ income by commercialising vegetable crops. A novel feature of this finding is the role of access to credit in the commercialisation of vegetable farming and the impact of landholding status on the profitability of intensive farming of high-valued vegetables.

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the impact of contract farming participation on smallholder farmers' income and food security in rice crop production in Northern Benin using 400 randomly selected rice farmer households.
Abstract: Investigated in this work is the impact of contract farming participation on smallholder farmers’ income and food security in rice crop production in Northern Benin using 400 randomly selected rice farmer households. Unlike previous studies, we corrected for both observed and unobserved biases by combining propensity score matching (PSM) and the local average treatment effect parameter (LATE). The results showed significant negative consequences of partaking in rice contract farming. We found evidence of significant negative effects on rice production income at a 1% level. The more the rice farmers join in contract farming, the lower the farm income became. Decreased food consumption was also a result of contract farming participation for potential participants by a score of 60.64, placing their households at the food security status level of poor food consumption because the quantity and nutritional quality of the food consumed were inadequate. Contract farming is, therefore, not a reasonable policy instrument that can help farmers increase their income and improve their food security level in the Alibori Department, Benin if farmers do not diversify their crops. The necessary resources and economic environment are not yet in place to allow contract farming to take full advantage of its potential benefits. To prevent the wasting of scarce public resources, expanding contract farming would not be appropriate in marginal areas with markets and other infrastructure. Additional measures are needed for contract farming to be profitable for contracting actors and to ensure sustainability and the large-scale participation of farmers.

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TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper developed and employed a multi-level statistical model using farm household survey data and geographical maps of Wulong County to detect the influences on land abandonment at the parcel, household and village levels.

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  • ...found, surprisingly, that the household proportion of males among agricultural laborers did not significantly influence the occurrence of land abandonment at the parcel level, probably due to the male agricultural laborers being overwhelmingly old (average age greater than 56 years) [7]....

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TL;DR: Based upon data collected in 1993 on 54,372 individuals in the Fifth Sampling Survey of the Floating Population of Shanghai, the authors examined the characteristics and occupations of 32,967 rural labor migrants.

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  • ...Roberts conjectured that village-based networks are important in channeling migrants into particular occupations and destinations, undermining the notion of a “blind” migration from rural areas to coastal cities during China’s rapid economic transition [20]....

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