Effects of Leisure Agriculture on Farmers'Income under the Background of Agro-tourism Integration
Current studies have shown that leisure agriculture plays an important role in re-gional economic and social development under the background of agro-tourism integration,but its impact on farmers'income from the perspective of micro-economic subject has not been sufficiently valued and verified.This paper selected strawberry growers in Yangzhou,Taizhou and Zhenjiang as the investigation objects,brought leisure agriculture into the family income model,discussed the fac-tors affecting the farmers'annual household income,and employed the propensity score matching analysis method to overcome the self-selection bias.The research showed that leisure agriculture had a significant promoting effect on family income compared with growers who did not provide straw-berry picking,with an average annual income increasing of 12,200 yuan.The resources endowment,such as the material capital represented by productive fixed investment and cultivated land area,the human capital represented by skill training,the social capital represented by the household gift ex-penditure and the level of social network,and the external capital represented by rural tourist attrac-tions,had significant positive influence on the annual income of the family.Therefore,the overall planning,the guidance and publicity of strawberry picking and the capital endowment of growers had great significance to increase household income and improve economic situation.
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