Total-Factor Cultivated Land Efficiency in China

Author

Wu, Leah ; Zhang, Wen Xiu

Author_Institution

Fac. of Econ. Manage., Sichuan Agric. Univ., Ya´´an, China

fYear

2010

fDate

24-26 Aug. 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

The paper utilizes data envelopment analysis (DEA) and a newly proposed total-factor cultivated land efficiency (TFCLE) index to analyze cultivated land use efficiencies of 31 cantons in China from 1999 through 2008. The results indicate that the national TFCLE is 0.649, which shows 35.1 percent of improvement. In terms of geographical distribution, the uppermost category including Beijing, Hainan, Xinjiang, and Qinghai is the lowest one. The TFCLE of coastland is higher than Hinterland´s. Then, after advanced analysis of our results, the paper concludes that enhancing the capacity of preventing natural disaster in agriculture, increasing invest in agricultural machinery and R & D, and raising the multiple crop index are advised to improve the cultivated land use efficiencies.

Keywords

agricultural machinery; crops; data envelopment analysis; disasters; research and development; China; R&D; agricultural machinery; crop index; data envelopment analysis; geographical distribution; natural disaster prevention; total-factor cultivated land efficiency index; Agriculture; Biological system modeling; Data envelopment analysis; Indexes; Productivity; Sea measurements;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Management and Service Science (MASS), 2010 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Wuhan

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5325-2

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-5326-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICMSS.2010.5577411

Filename

5577411