Abstract
This paper examines the impacts of commercialized farming on the Governor Grain Supply Responsibility System in China. Recently, the supply-demand balance of grain in the region of Chongqing City, a "supply and demand balanced district" under The Governor Grain Supply Responsibility System, is in a difficult situation. However, non-grain product production in T prefecture in Chongqing City has expanded rapidly, especially the expansion of the vegetable production, despite the area having the responsibility on self-sufficiency of grain. This study considers the changes of grain self-support structure of T prefecture, and clarifies the future direction of agriculture in an inland city and its outskirts where self-sufficient grain farming originally operated. The study found three diffident aspects of self-sufficient grain farming. The first is the importance of large-scale production based on the grain self-sufficiency. The second was a rapid shift from the subsistence farming to commercialized farming due to the effect of vegetable enterprises. And third was recognition of a conversion to the commercialized farming by organizing vegetable base.
