Abstract:

Research on the impact of farmland consolidation on rural households’ capital input in farmland has great value in improving evaluation of performance and policies of farmland consolidation (FC).In this paper,influencing factors were theoretically and empirically analyzed.Theoretical hypothesis was formulated through theoretical analysis,and then empirical test was performed based on the questionnaire survey of 185 rural households of 3 counties in farmland consolidation area in Hubei province.This paper established linear regression model to analyze how FC affected rural households’capital input including floating capital and  agricultural machinery input in farmland.The results show that there are both crowdingineffects and crowdingouteffects in FC.It has a different impact on essential element of production:the private investment which complement with government investment grows while otherwise declines.The impact of influencing factors varied from floating capital input to agricultural machinery input.The impact of influencing factors varied within floating capital input and agricultural machinery input.The crowdingouteffects is stronger than crowdingineffects of FC on rural households’ input in farmland,the crowdingouteffects is incarnated in the floating capital.However,land consolidation benefits the wish to purchase agricultural machine while it affects weakly in the agricultural machinery input at the present