YU Xiaohua, ZHAO Guoqing 

Author information

a Courant Research Center “Poverty, Equity and Growth”, University of Göttingen, Platz der Göttinger Sieben3, Göttingen 37073, Germany

b School of Economics, Renmin University of China, Beijing 100872, China;

Abstract

This paper reviews the current literature on Chinese agricultural growth in the past three decades, and finds that fertilizers, price reforms, human capital growth, and demographic changes are the main factors for the continuous growth of agricultural outputs and farmer income. The costs for the growth include severe environmental pollutions and the incoming population aging which should be cured in order to achieve a sustainable growth. 

Keywords

agricultural development , human capital , non-point pollution , China

Cite this article

YU Xiaohua, ZHAO Guoqing. Chinese agricultural development in 30 years: A literature review. Front. Econ. China, 2009, 4(4): 633‒648 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11459-009-0034-y