Commercial cash crop production and households'economic welfare:Evidence from the pulse farmers in rural China

作     者：MA Ji-liang LI Fan ZHANG Hui-jie Khan NAWAB MA Ji-liang;LI Fan;ZHANG Hui-jie;Khan NAWAB

作者机构：Institute of Agricultural Economics and DevelopmentChinese Academy of Agricultural SciencesBeijing 100081P.R.China College of Economics and ManagementHuazhong Agricultural UniversityWuhan 430070P.R.China Agricultural Information InstituteChinese Academy of Agricultural SciencesBeijing 100081P.R.China College of ManagementSichuan Agricultural UniversityChengdu 611130P.R.China Macro Agriculture Research InstituteHuazhong Agricultural UniversityWuhan 430070P.R.China 

出 版 物：《Journal of Integrative Agriculture》 (农业科学学报（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2022年第21卷第11期

页      面：3395-3407页

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学科分类：120301[管理学-农业经济管理] 12[管理学] 1203[管理学-农林经济管理] 

基　　金：supported by the China Agriculture Research System of MOF and MARA(CARS-08-G21) the National Natural Science Foundation of China(71904190) 

主　　题：pulse farming cash crop commercialization economic welfare China 

摘      要：Whether promoting cash crop production can increase household welfare has long been the focus of the food policy *** study first investigated the determinants of household behavior in commercial pulse *** then examined how households commercial pulse production improves their economic *** used a dataset of 848 households collected from 2018 to 2019 to estimate the determinants of household behavior in commercial pulse farming by the Heckman two-step *** endogenous treatment regression(ETR)method was employed to examine the impact of commercial pulse farming on household economic *** results showed that factors such as market purchase prices,agricultural technology services,farmers access to loans,and government subsidies promoted smallholders commercial pulse farming;production costs and perceptions of climate change risks constrained smallholders commercial pulse ***,commercial pulse production has increased household farm income but there was a limited impact on household off-farm *** findings suggest that policies aiming to increase households cash crop production and market access could significantly improve the economic welfare of pulse farmers.