Laboratory of Environmental Life Economics, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Faculty of Agriculture, Kyushu University
九州大学大学院農学研究院農業経済学部門農業資源経済学講座環境生命経済学研究室
Equity and efficiency are often in contradictory, but sometimes can have both. The evolution of institutional arrangements of farmland in the People's Republic China (the PRC) in 60 years also confirmed this theory. Land reform and the household responsibility system of farmland make farmers to obtain land use right equally, it is also realized the tremendous increase in agricultural productivity. Policy goals of equity and efficiency are in synchronization. In the period of agricultural co?operation, farmers do not have property right of farmland, this achieve near?absolute equity. Because of the loss of farmland ownership, farmers lose the enthusiasm for production. Agricultural productivity is badly lowed. In the pursuit of equity efficiency lost. Because of the dual economic structure and level of economic development, the goal of China's farmland policy which is giving priority to equity with the consideration to efficiency, will remain a long time in the future.