Abstract:

With the progressive development of market economy,the marketization of rural area in China enters into a new stage,and its relation with the land use behaviors of rural households becomes closer and closer.This paper analyzes the impacts of rural marketization on rural household’s cultivated land transfer,which composes of agricultural products market and land transfer market.Methods employed include farmer questionnaire survey and Heckman’s twostage regression model analysis.The results indicate that the level of the cultivated land transfer rent and the value of agricultural product sale bring remarkable influence on cultivated land transfer,which determine the rural household’s land expectation and agricultural benefit.The same factor exerts contrary influence on the cultivated land outflow and inflow.Other factors like features of rural households,cultivated land resources,and regional differences have significant influence on the cultivated land transfer,which are in agreement with the driving forces of the cultivated land transfer.It is concluded that the market of rural land transfer and agricultural products are distempered.It puts forward that the perfection of market mechanism of land transfer and agricultural products,as well as the development of modern agriculture and land scale management,will contribute to promote the farmers’ material benefits and improve the rural land use structure