Abstract:

As the only free trade port covering a whole island in the world, Hainan requires particular attention concerning the Sannong issues (namely, agriculture, rural community and farmers). In recent years, agriculture in Hainan has maintained a good growth momentum, but there are still problems such as insufficient scale, intensification, standardization, branding, marketization and etc. The regression analysis of panel data shows that the impact of the agricultural industry on farmers’ income is significantly negative. The study proposes some suggestions on agriculture development in Hainan, including revitalizing the abandoned rural land through comprehensive land consolidation for intensive and large-scale development, to uphold the principle of food security; stabilizing rubber plantation and production and developing under-forest economy, to diversify the sources of farmers’ income; developing market oriented agriculture with regional characteristics through high-level opening up, to promote Hainan’s agriculture towards standardization and branding; and accelerating the establishment of National Tropical Agricultural Science Center to improve the transformation of agricultural scientific and technological achievements.

Key words: Hainan Free Trade Port, efficient agriculture with tropical characteristics, modernization of agriculture, comprehensive land consolidation, farmers’ income