Abstract:

The research on the performance of a large sample agricultural land consolidation projects,has an important reference value for the scientific development of land consolidation policy.This paper employed the related data of 322 land consolidation projects with provincial investment from 2001 to 2009 in Hubei Province,constructed 13 indicators of land consolidation projects performance evaluation.By means of Delphi method and analytic hierarchy process (AHP),this study calculated the weight of each indicator,and sumed up the total value score of performance evaluation of each project;and analyzed the performance of projects and its spatial distribution characteristics,relation between performance of sample projects and investment per area,relation between the number of land consolidation projects and farmland resource.It is concluded that,the performance of major land consolidation projects was in general level,small percentage of land consolidation projects achieved good level,and achieved good economic,social,ecological benefits overall.Within certain criteria of investment,the correlation between investment per area and project performance was significant,the investment increase lead to performance increase.In response to the different engineering mode area,there was some gap of the average performance evaluation and total value around the cities,showing some regional differences.The projects number of each city had significant positive correlation with its area farmland resources,and it showed that land consolidation investment did not deviate from the policy direction to enhance grain production capacity of major grainproducing counties