The Impact of Aging Agricultural Labor Population on Farmland Output: From the Perspective of Farmer Preferences
Joint Authors
Zhu, Jingjuan
Guo, Guancheng
Wen, Qiyu
Source
Mathematical Problems in Engineering
Issue
Vol. 2015, Issue 2015 (31 Dec. 2015), pp.1-7, 7 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2015-10-18
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
7
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
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.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Guo, Guancheng& Wen, Qiyu& Zhu, Jingjuan. 2015. The Impact of Aging Agricultural Labor Population on Farmland Output: From the Perspective of Farmer Preferences. Mathematical Problems in Engineering،Vol. 2015, no. 2015, pp.1-7.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1074600
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Guo, Guancheng…[et al.]. The Impact of Aging Agricultural Labor Population on Farmland Output: From the Perspective of Farmer Preferences. Mathematical Problems in Engineering No. 2015 (2015), pp.1-7.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1074600
American Medical Association (AMA)
Guo, Guancheng& Wen, Qiyu& Zhu, Jingjuan. The Impact of Aging Agricultural Labor Population on Farmland Output: From the Perspective of Farmer Preferences. Mathematical Problems in Engineering. 2015. Vol. 2015, no. 2015, pp.1-7.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1074600
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-1074600