The Structure and Its Change in Family Farming in Minority Groups in Less Developed Areas. A Case Study in the Jiang Tou Village of Chu Xiong Yi Ethnogenesis Autonomous Prefecture of Yunnan Province.

Accession number;99A0442584
Title;The Structure and Its Change in Family Farming in Minority Groups in Less Developed Areas. A Case Study in the Jiang Tou Village of Chu Xiong Yi Ethnogenesis Autonomous Prefecture of Yunnan Province.
Author; CHENG S G (Mie Univ., Fac. of Bioresour.) OHARA KOTARO (Mie Univ., Fac. of Bioresour.)
Journal Title;Bull Fac Bioresour Mie Univ
Journal Code:Y0251B
ISSN:0915-0471
VOL.;NO.22;PAGE.23-46(1999)
Figure&Table&Reference;FIG.14, TBL.10, REF.16
Pub. Country;Japan
Language;Japanese
Abstract;China is a multinational country composed of Han ethnogenesies 55 of ethnic minorities. The change in rural family farming in minority nationality concentration areas will have a great impact on the development of the Chinese rural economy. The case study area is the Jiang Tou village of the Chu Xiong Yi ethnogenesis autonmous prefecture of Yunnan Province. The following main points were found during the survey. 1) It was found that low productivity of family workers and insufficient farm support by the village and cooperatives as the main restricted factors in improving family farming. 2) The middle-level and low-level farm households want to expand their scale of business, that is, to increase the production of cereal crops and they want to devote major efforts to develop growing tobacco, chestnuts, walnats, raising hogs and so on, in order to acquire more income. 3) Income source in the higher-level farm household have been shifted from farming to other types of industries, such as processing agricultural products and brewery. Their faming is confined to the home consumption. (author abst.)