SOME ECONOMIC PROBLEMS OF AGRICULTURAL RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT IN CHINESE POOR MOUNTAINOUS AREAS
贫困山区农业资源开发模式、经济准则与相应政策探讨

There is a shortage of grain production in chinese poor mountainous areas. The basic production behavior model of the peasants is to strive for self-sufficiency of grain. Except labour,the input levels of resources are very low in the area, with a result of high marginal returns. The application of production functions can bring to light exactly the potentialities and economic benefits of the productions. The profitable products in mountainous areas are the forest and its special products.But only when grain self-sufficiency has been reached first, can an effective develop-ment of forestry and its special products be realized. The strategy for mountain agricultural development is to increase the yield per unit area of land and change some farm land back into forestry. In this paper three economic criteria for the arrangements of long run forestry production and short run agricultural production are given. To coordinate interrelations between the targets of development, resources and production, a modle of system dynamics including hundreds of functions and variables is used. It enables the development progeramme to have a higher rate of success. And a series of policy suggestions for the development is made thereby.