Study on the capacity of the quantity of agricultural labor force in urban-rural area in China

2015 ◽  
pp. 453-456
Keyword(s):  
Labor Force ◽  
Rural Area ◽  
Agricultural Labor ◽  
Urban Rural

scholarly journals The Spatial–Temporal Changes of the Coupling Relationship among Agricultural Labor Force, Agricultural Economy, and Farmland in Chongqing

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (16) ◽  
pp. 8780
Author(s):  
Lin Zhu ◽  
Mingying Yang ◽  
Wenzhuo Li ◽  
Heping Liao ◽  
Han Huang
Keyword(s):  
Labor Force ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Annual Rate ◽  
Agricultural Labor ◽  
Average Annual Rate ◽  
Coordinated Development ◽  
Agricultural Economy ◽  
Rural Transformation ◽  
Urban Rural ◽  
High Coordination

Agricultural labor force, agricultural economy, and farmland use are momentous components of sustainable development in rural areas, as well as essential causes of drastic changes in the urban–rural transformation. This paper studies the spatial–temporal characteristics of the labor–farmland–economy coupling structure from 2000 to 2018 in rural areas of Chongqing using spatial analysis technology. The study has four main results. First and foremost, not only has the average annual rate of the agricultural labor force in Chongqing reduced by 3.73%, but the reduction rates in Jiangbei District, Dadukou District, Nan’an District, Shapingba District, and Yubei District have exceeded 15%. Then, the average annual rate of the agricultural economy has increased by 9.32%, but it has been in a downward trend in Dadukou District, Jiangbei District, and Shapingba Districts. Furthermore, the average annual decline rate of farmland area is 0.34% with larger reduction occurring in the nine of the central urban districts, Chengkou County and Wushan County. Ultimately, there have been 33 districts and counties with the temporal–spatial characteristics of labor–farmland–economy coupling above primary coordination, which includes 16 districts and counties reaching a high coordination. This provides theoretical and methodical supports for the coordinated development of human and land industries in different regions.

scholarly journals Household solid waste production and its management in Biratnagar sub-metropolitan city

BIBECHANA ◽  
1970 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 21-25
Author(s):  
Ram Chandra Adhihari
Keyword(s):  
Waste Management ◽  
Solid Waste ◽  
Rural Area ◽  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
Biodegradable Waste ◽  
Metropolitan City ◽  
Household Solid Waste ◽  
Waste Production ◽  
Urban Rural

The study was conducted from March to May month of 2010 A D in Biratnagar regarding the waste production and management. Total amount of waste produced was recorded about 46.877 tonnes per day. The highest amount was from urban rural area (44.637 tonnes) and the lowest was from main bazaar (0.689 tonnes). About 69.19 percent households collect waste separately. 45.90 percent households dump degradable waste. 80 percentages of all households sell non degradable waste and only 33.67 percentage people of this town have scientific knowledge of waste management. Keywords: Solid waste; Biodegradable waste; Improper settlements DOI: 10.3126/bibechana.v7i0.4039BIBECHANA 7 (2011) 21-25

scholarly journals The Impact of Urbanization on Farmland Productivity: Implications for China’s Requisition–Compensation Balance of Farmland Policy

Land ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (9) ◽  
pp. 311 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhongqi Deng ◽  
Qianyu Zhao ◽  
Helen X. H. Bao
Keyword(s):  
Labor Force ◽  
Stochastic Frontier Analysis ◽  
Stochastic Frontier ◽  
Agricultural Labor ◽  
Frontier Analysis ◽  
Conservation Policies ◽  
Use Efficiency ◽  
Urbanization Rate ◽  
Impact Of Urbanization ◽  
The Impact

The rapid growth of China’s economy since the reform in 1978 should be largely attributed to urbanization. Nonetheless, in terms of farmland productivity, urbanization may lead to perverse incentives and thus threaten food security. On the one hand, the requisition–compensation balance of farmland (RCBF) policy could reduce farmland productivity because of a “superior occupation and inferior compensation”; on the other hand, urbanization promotes the transfer of the younger labor force and thus reduces the productivity of the agricultural labor force. To investigate the undesirable effects, based on some stylized facts, this study selects 29,415 county-level samples in a Chinese county from 2000–2014 to construct an empirical model. With a new stochastic frontier analysis method that eliminates the classical econometric issues of endogeneity and heterogeneity, the empirical results show that there is a U-shaped relationship between the farmland use efficiency (productivity) and urbanization rate, indicating that only when the urbanization rate is relatively low would urbanization decrease the farmland use efficiency; in contrast, when the urbanization rate is relatively high, technical progress would obviously be accompanied by urbanization, and thus, the undesirable effects are fully offset. Furthermore, the U-shaped relationship is robust after considering the endogeneity of the urbanization rate and total-factor farmland use efficiency. With these findings, recommendations to implement sustainable management and conservation policies regarding farmland resources are made.

The Height and Weight of West Point Cadets: Dietary Change in Antebellum America

1987 ◽  
Vol 47 (4) ◽  
pp. 897-927 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Komlos
Keyword(s):  
Nutritional Status ◽  
Labor Force ◽  
Food Production ◽  
Blue Collar ◽  
West Point ◽  
Agricultural Labor ◽  
Antebellum America ◽  
Blue Collar Workers ◽  
Antebellum Period ◽  
Industrial Labor

A decline in nutritional status is inferred from data on the height and weight of West Point cadets in the antebellum period. The decline was geographically widespread and affected farmers and blue-collar workers the most; middle-class cadets did not experience a decline in nutritional status until the Civil War. Nutritional status declined because meat output did not keep pace with population growth. Urbanization and the expansion of the industrial labor force increased the demand for food. However, the agricultural labor force grew at a slower pace, and productivity growth in food production was insufficient to redress the imbalance.

Structural Change Early in Development: Mexico's Changing Industrial and Occupational Structure from 1895 to 1950

1969 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 716-738 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald B. Keesing
Keyword(s):  
Structural Change ◽  
Labor Force ◽  
Structural Changes ◽  
Industrial Structure ◽  
Agricultural Labor ◽  
Occupational Structure ◽  
Early Stages

This Article summarizes the main findings of a detailed. study of the changing occupational and industrial structure of Mexico's non-agricultural labor force from 1895 to 1930 and from 1930 to 1950, based on a comparison of population censuses, especially those of 1895, 1930, and 1950. Structural changes in Mexico's labor force have never been adequately studied, and the results of the present research shed considerable new light on Mexico's development. The findings also suggest important paradoxes and discontinuities in the early stages of industrialization that merit systematic recognition in models and measurements of structural change over the course of development.

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