TITLE:
Rural Road Improvement and Farmland Circulation: The Production Cost Perspective
AUTHORS:
Zhaoxiang Wu
KEYWORDS:
Rural Road, Farmland Transfer, Village
JOURNAL NAME:
American Journal of Industrial and Business Management,
Vol.8 No.10,
October
9,
2018
ABSTRACT: This paper comprehensively
investigates the impact of rural road infrastructure improvement on farmland
transfer from the perspective of agricultural production costs. Based on a
theoretical analysis framework, this paper builds a theoretical model of supply
and demand for the village farmland transfer and discusses the trend of the
equilibrium point between supply and demand before and after the improvement of
rural road infrastructures. This is taken as the starting point for the
theoretical analysis to discuss the impact of the improvement of rural road
infrastructures on village farmland transfer. According to the analysis, the
corresponding research hypothesis is proposed. Moreover, by employing 2018
survey data on a village in the Anhui Province, the research conclusions are
obtained. Specifically, the Tobit regression model analysis highlights that the
increase in rural road infrastructures does have a significant impact on
agricultural land transfer.