Western Economics Topic In March 2013, the Ministry of Agriculture conducted a statistical survey on the development of family farms across the country for the first time. The survey results show tha

Western Economics Topic In March 2013, the Ministry of Agriculture conducted a statistical survey on the development of family farms across the country for the first time. The survey results show that currently I

(1) The basis for promoting family farms is the changing law of returns to scale. Economies of scale can only be achieved when farmland is operated on a certain scale, and the scattered experience of each household is obviously not enough for this moderate scale.

(2) Emphasize that the current single farmer operation is too small, and the gap is too large compared with the moderate scale.

(3) When an enterprise operates on a moderate scale, it can achieve the lowest average cost or the highest average yield per mu, but it cannot achieve the highest total output. If farmers are stranded in rural areas and have no other side business to do, then maximizing output will be more important, and the significance of family farms will be greatly reduced.

(4) It is limited to the family scope, and the farm size is not large enough. If we follow the rules of production, the farm size needs to be larger.