Family members are a dominant source for China's agricultural labor force, regardless of the size of land held in each household. Machinery use in crop production is still not popular, while the scale of land held by households has an impact on the use of machinery in crop production. Moreover, the small land holdings of agriculture may lower labor productivity, even though there are more non-agricultural employment activities among these small scale households. The paper has been prepared for the International Seminar on China Agricultural Census Beijing, China, September 19-22, 2000. Download full-text discussion paper .
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