The Impact of Aging Agricultural Labor Population on Farmland Output: From the Perspective of Farmer Preferences

Table 2

Agricultural factor input of different types of farmers.

	API (RMB/mu)	AA (years)	EL	LI (person)	AOA (mu)	OFB (blocks)	SI (RMB/mu)	PI (RMB/mu)	FI (RMB/mu)
OA	1924.31	66.69	2.29	1.54	4.79	3.62	122.97	131.26	262.35
ONA	2215.90	66.14	2.38	1.57	6.53	3.89	149.64	156.29	310.58
YA	1631.56	49.33	3.19	1.27	7.94	3.76	133.64	97.52	243.26
YNA	1883.34	49.19	3.24	1.40	13.14	5.28	137.84	125.79	261.62
GF	1776.91	58.01	2.74	1.40	6.37	3.69	128.30	114.39	252.80
NGF	2048.61	57.67	2.81	1.48	9.84	4.59	143.74	141.04	286.10
OF	2068.78	66.41	2.34	1.55	5.66	3.76	136.30	143.77	286.46
YF	1756.74	49.26	3.22	1.33	10.54	4.52	135.74	111.66	252.44

Note: GF refers to the farmers who want to give up farmland and NGF refers to the farmers who do not want to give up farmland. OF signifies old farmers and YF signifies young farmers. API refers to agriculture operating income in 2012. AA refers to average age. EL refers to education level. LI refers to labor input. AOA refers to actual operating area. OFB refers to operating farmland blocks. SI refers to seed input. PI refers to pesticide input. FI refers to fertilizer input. mu is a popular area unit in China which equals 0.067 ha. The age and education level are the averages of the major agricultural labor households. Less than 30 years old is considered young in this research, and the age more than 60 is considered old.