农场的性质、规模与效率——中国农业规模化经营研究述评

Property,Scale and Efficiency of Farms——Review of Researches into China Agricultural Scale Management

从农场规模的决定、农场规模的效率涵义、农场组织性质和中国农业规模化经营四个方面看,现有的研究文献关于中国农业经营规模与效率的关系在理论和经验分析上都存在着较大的分歧。以新古典框架为基础的规模报酬原理难以对农场规模效率涵义做出合理的解释,进一步的研究需要建立在农业组织理论创新的基础之上。

This paper reviews the studies on enlargement of agricultural scale in China, which include four parts： the decision of farm size, the relationship of farm size and agricultural productivity, the organizational nature of farms. There is big difference between the- ory and practice of present literature about China agricultural scale and efficiency. Based on neoclassic economics, the concept of ＂returns from scale＂ limits reasonability of analysis to the relationship between farm size and efficiency, and further studies should be done on the basis of more effective works of agriculture organization theories.