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Farm households’ rice production behavior in China under a separability assumption: A metaheuristic optimization approach
Natural Resource Modeling ( IF 1.8 ) Pub Date : 2019-05-19 , DOI: 10.1111/nrm.12221 Fengbo Chen 1 , Qiuzhuo Ma 2 , Wenbin Huang 3
Natural Resource Modeling ( IF 1.8 ) Pub Date : 2019-05-19 , DOI: 10.1111/nrm.12221 Fengbo Chen 1 , Qiuzhuo Ma 2 , Wenbin Huang 3
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The production behavior of farm households has been a topic of interest for a long time. We explore the optimal production strategies from a household's perspective under the assumption of separability between consumption and production. The data used for this study come from farm households located in five provinces of China. To identify the impacts of various parameters on farmers' production behavior, optimal solutions and the households' actual production behaviors are compared. Results show that most of the households overinvested on farm land, labor force, materials, and machinery. Compared to existing production efficiency estimates, households, regardless of size, and exhibit different degrees of nonseparability. The sensitivity analysis shows a similar result, but finds that large households become more efficient if they have a higher production coefficient. The optimized result obtained in this paper not only provides farmers with decision‐support information on efficient resource allocation, but also helps policymakers to formulate better agricultural policies.
更新日期：2019-05-19
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