Benefit-Cost Analysis Of Rural Household Planting Vegetables in Hainan Province——Based on Rural Household Survey from 6 Counties
LI Zhe-min，ZHANG Yu-mei，ZHANG Chao，XU Shi-wei*
Agricultural Information Institute， Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences， Key Laboratory of Agri-information Services Technology， Ministry ofAgriculture， Beijing 100081， China
Abstract：This paper analyzes the production benift-cost for 5 vegetables： green pepper，cowpea，
cucumber，bitter gourd and Chinese wax gourd based on the rural household survey data in Hainan Province. The paper also compares the above benift-cost with the cost and benefit of vegetable production in large and medium sized cities all over China，so as to understand the advantages and disadvantages of vegetable production in Hainan Province. The results show that：（1） Small households mainly depend on labor of family members at their own land to grow vegetables. Chemical fertilizers and pesticides are the major costs.（2） Production costs and benefits of different vegetable production are significantly different. The production cost of cowpea is the highest，that of green pepper，cucumber and bitter gourd follows；the cost of Chinese wax gourd is relatively lower，the input of pesticide and chemical fertilizer is less；while the net revenues of cucumber and Chinese wax gourd are relatively high.（3） The major advantages of planting vegetables in Hainan are lower production cost，and higher vegetable prices in winter.（4） However，compared with the national average level，vegetable yield per unit area in Hainan is still low. There are many difficulties in controlling pest and diseases. The paper suggests that the government should guide the farmers how to use pesticides and chemical fertilizer rationally，reduce costs and input，set up rands of their own agricultural products，and upgrade the products’ quality，etc. The paper also suggests the government to do more work to solve bottlenecks limiting vegetable industry development in Hainan，to further improve vegetable industry development level，and to increase farmers’ income as well.
