PROGRESS IN GEOGRAPHY ›› 2018, Vol. 37 ›› Issue (5): 636-646.doi: 10.18306/dlkxjz.2018.05.007

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Operational mechanism and restructuring of rural production space system from the perspective of farming household behavior

Cheng WANG(), Xiaosu MA, Ning TANG, Haoying LI, Mingming ZHOU, Yanzhou HE   

  1. School of Geographical Sciences, Laboratory of Research on Rural Human Settlements, Southwest University, Chongqing Key Laboratory of Karst Environment, Chongqing 400715, China
  • Received:2017-12-25 Revised:2018-03-23 Online:2018-05-28 Published:2018-05-28
  • Supported by:
    National Natural Science Foundation, No.41741022;Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, No.XDJK2017B016;Social Science Planning Project of Chongqing, No.2015YBGL115

Abstract:

The change of farming household behaviors is an important driving force for quantitative change or from quantitative to qualitative change of rural production space system. The operation of rural production space system is the external manifestation of farming household behaviors. Examining farming household behaviors can provide some insights for the interpretation of the operational mechanism of rural production space system. Based on a theoretical framework of farming household behavior transformation and the operational response of rural production space system, this study constructed the index system and established a fuzzy comprehensive evaluation model from the perspective of farming household behavior transformation, and took Henghe Village of Jiangjin District in Chongqing Municipality as an example to interpret the operational mechanism of rural production space system. The main conclusions are as follows: the behaviors of various farming households effected differently on the operation of rural production space system, among which large agricultural producers showed greater impact than joint agricultural cooperatives, which in turn had greater impact than the traditional households. The impacts of different farming household behaviors on rural production space system operation were different, among which the behaviors of large agricultural producers mainly affected the utilization efficiency of rural production space system; the behaviors of joint agricultural cooperatives clearly improved the economic benefits of rural production space system; and the contribution of traditional household behaviors to the improvement of rural production space system was minimal. This study put forward some suggestions from the perspective of economic, social, and spatial restructuring including developing a variety of moderately large-scale operations, fostering new agricultural management entities and professional farmers, and guiding the input behavior of technology and capital of farming households in order to realize the coordination and balanced development of rural production space system.

Key words: farming household behavior, rural production space system, fuzzy comprehensive evaluation model, operational mechanism, Henghe Village, Chongqing Municipality