Characteristics, Bottlenecks and Development Countermeasures of Rural Household Business Income Growth in Guangzhou City

Abstract

【Objective】Under the background of the transformation and upgrading of agricultural development, sorting out the characteristics reflected in the development and transformation of new urban agricultural business entities is condusive to finding the focus of solving the substantive difficulties faced by farmers in the production and operation process.【Method】The development characteristics and trends of rural household business income in Guangzhou in recent years were summarized by adopting data from statistical yearbooks, fixed observation points in rural areas of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, and sampling survey of farmers; And family farm survey data was further analyzed to reveal the bottlenecks faced by the rural household management in urban areas.【Result】From 2000 to 2020, the income structure of rural residents in Guangzhou changed dramatically. The proportion of wage income increased from 40% to 73%, and the proportion of business income decreased from 50% to 11%. The overall dependence on business income has decreased; however, the net business income plays a relatively important role in increasing the income of middle and upper middle-income households. Rural family-run farms in Guangzhou are transitioning from "small, multiple, complete and scattered" to "large-scale, single and professional" and gradually showing a trend of integration of three industries. However, the proportion of farms using agricultural facilities or advanced machinery is low, and the awareness of green development is not strong enough.【Conclusion】The research reveals that the current household operation scale of farmers' family farms in Guangzhou has adapted tothe high cost and risk of urban agriculture. However, the business income of rural residents lacks endogenous power, and the labor efficiency of agricultural production needs to be improved. The long-term development still faces the problems of insufficient funds, backward social services, blocked sales channels, and poor basic conditions of villages. Therefore, it is necessary to stimulate the endogenous power of business income growth, formulate policies on talents, finance and skills services, industrial clusters, and green development, and push the sustainable growth of rural household business income.

Keywords

• urban agriculture
• rural household magnagement
• income growth
• income structure
• guangzhou