| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺灣大學 === 農業經濟學研究所 === 103 === The success of economic development in Taiwan is due to solid agricultural foundation and appropriate economic policies. However, during that period, the focus shifts from agriculture sector to industry and business sector. In addition, the agriculture in Taiwan encounters difficulties in production, including aging farming population, farm households with average operation area less than 1 ha, nearly 30% of farm households have no successor, and over 75% of the farming population is part-time farmers. These reasons cause lower income of farm households than non-farm households. The purpose of this research is to figure out and analyze the factors that influence the agricultural revenue in Taiwan. Furthermore, provide suggestions of agriculture policy based on the findings in this research.
This research analyzes Agriculture, Forestry, Fishery and Animal Husbandry Census of 2000, 2005 and 2010. First, this research conducts descriptive statistics and cross analysis to find out the factors influence on agricultural revenue. In addition, it uses the factors as independent variables in multiple regression analysis and quantile regression analysis to examine the effects to agricultural revenue at different quantiles.
The result of this study showed that farm operator’s age and education, operation scale, farm with or without successor, full-time or part-time farm, farm region, and farming type are related to agricultural revenue.
Suggestions from the results in this study are as follows:
1. Lower the age of farm household operators has positive effect to agricultural revenue. In addition, from the result we can learn that improving aging problem for animal husbandry households has stronger effect than agriculture households. From different perspective of agricultural revenue, improve aging problem in low-income farms has better effect in increasing agricultural revenue than high-income farms.
2. Similarly, improve education level in animal husbandry households has more significant result in increasing agricultural revenue than agriculture household.
3. Compared with low agricultural revenue farm households, expanding the operation scale of high agricultural revenue farm households has more efficient in increasing agricultural revenue. Meanwhile, convenience and sufficiency of rural financial institution is extremely important for highly invested business. It provides easier way to improve operation scale of agriculture and animal husbandry households.
4. Overcome farm households without successor problem for high agriculture revenue farm households have preferable effect to low agriculture revenue farm households.
5. Settle part-time issues for high agriculture revenue farm households have larger effect than low agriculture revenue farm households in improving agricultural revenue.
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