Can Land Circulation Improve Farmers’ Income? A Survey of Five China' s Western Provinces

Abstract

This article Based on the field survey of 15000 farmers in Gansu, Ningxia, Inner Mongolia, Shaanxi and Qinghai provinces, we used mediator model,analyzed the impact of farmers' livelihood strategies on land circulation and income growth. The research results showed that the farmers’ dependence on land gradually weakened, the willingness of farmland transfer decline, the willingness of farmland transfer to rise; Farmer’s livelihood strategy directly affected income growth, while indirectly income growth by land circulation. Therefore, further promotion on agricultural science and technology achievements transformation and talent support for rural development should be strengthened, the agricultural support system which increases farmers' income should be promoted, farmers' agricultural labor remuneration and scale economic benefit should be encouraged by new styles of agricultural businesses. We should continue to strengthen the progress of the land property rights system, promote the transfer of rural surplus labor through skills training, employment and encourage startups, so that farmers will be both participants and beneficiaries from the farmland transfer.