Abstract:

It is very important for Chinese agricultural competitiveness in the international market in the future to promote the transfer of farmers’ land and to improve the utilization of land resources.The paper begins with a brief introduction to the research status of factors influencing farmers’ land transfer,then it analyzes the farmers’ behavior of land transfer from empirical study basing on field questionnaires completed by 142 farmers which were randomly selected from four villages in Gaoyou and Xinghua County of Jiangsu Province,China.Two models for studying such behavior and its corresponding land area were set up using probit and tobit regressive method.Result shows that the higher the level of security farmers’ family has the greater likelihood farmers will transfer out their land and its corresponding areas.The more agricultural labor force farmers have the more likelihood they will transfer land in.On the contrary,the more nonagricultural labor forces they have the more area of farmland will transfer out.The low level of farmers’ family security and the limitative chances for nonagricultural job are likely the most important factors impeding the development of land rental markets.

Key words: farmers&rsquo, land, land transfer, family security, structure of labor force