The influence of land fragmentation on land transfer rent: Evidence from farmers in Guangdong Province

Abstract

In order to further study the comprehensive benefits of land fragmentation transfer on agricultural operations and determine whether the current fragmentation problem is the core reason for low land circulation efficiency, this study used the survey data of 11 counties in Guangdong Province to assess the real impact of land fragmentation characteristics on rents under current conditions, and obtained the results through empirical testing. The basic conclusion of this paper is that farmers prefer large plots: the larger the plot area, the higher the rent per mu. At the same time, the implementation of “land ownership confirmation” may solidify the situation of land fragmentation. This result means that the negative effect of fragmentation on land use efficiency is great, and solving the fragmentation problem should be the main research direction of land related problems in the future.

Keywords

• land fragmentation rent scale economy land policy