抄録
The Qinghe village in the Yunnan Province of China is one of the food supply bases for that province. The results of a survey in Qinghe designed to document the characteristics of family farming in that village reveal that improving land productivity, raising fish in paddy fields, increasing the number of piglets, and expanding planting acreage of tobacco are the goals of these farmers. Because of the permeation of economic rationalism to farm households, primary family laborers and working capital were easily transferred from rice production to cash crop production, from the agricultural sector to non-agricultural sectors which will generate higher income. As a result, food grain production, i. e. rice production, was ignored to some extent.
The village and the agricultural cooperation office provided farmers services such as recommended varieties and farming methods and paying for the transplanting rice and harvest by farming-work contractors during the busy season. The results of the questionnaire indicate that while 95% of the farmers didn't want to expand their farmland and 87.5% of them disapproved of developing livestock farming, they all were satisfied with the prevalence of agricultural technology. Furthermore, the farmers want free marketing of rice by the abolishment of the current dualtrack system and the continued use of manure.
The results of the research also revealed that the environmental pollution became severe in the surveyed area and the reform of food grain circulation system departed from the farmers' real needs.
