After the reform and opening up, the reasons for the implementation of the household contract responsibility system are:

1. Nationally speaking, the level of agricultural development is relatively low, and it is mainly manual labor, so it is not suitable for large-scale agriculture. large-scale operations, and dividing the operating units into families, which is consistent with the production level of this manual labor.

2. The original collective labor under large-scale operations (before the reform, rural areas used production teams as the basic production and operation units, and farmers evaluated the work and recorded the distribution at the end of the year). It is difficult to accurately measure the quantity and quality of each person's labor. Statistics, therefore, must be the "big pot rice" of egalitarianism. However, using the family as the economic unit can overcome the egalitarianism of doing more and doing less.

3. The labor objects of agricultural production are animals, plants and other living entities. This characteristic of the labor objects requires workers to have a stronger sense of responsibility. Using the family as the business unit is conducive to this requirement. accomplish. Therefore, the household responsibility system enables agricultural production and the rural economy to flourish.

Extended information:

Essence

The essence of the household responsibility system is to break the old agricultural system of collective land ownership and collective management under the people's commune system The farming model realizes the separation of collective land ownership and management rights, and establishes a new agricultural farming model based on household contract management based on collective land ownership.

The household contract responsibility system is a historical choice under specific socio-economic conditions. This form of agricultural production organization has made great progress compared with the traditional agricultural production organization method (large collective period). While changing the rural economic pattern, it laid the foundation for economic development and subsequent reforms, mobilized the enthusiasm of agricultural producers, and played an important role in helping my country's farmers get rid of poverty.

Negative Impact

1. Household operations are decentralized and the scale of operations is too small to form economies of scale.

2. Farmers cannot freely dispose of land, which restricts farmers’ freedom of career choice.

3. It is difficult to build rural infrastructure and the long-term cost of agricultural production is high.

4. The scattered management of small family fields is not conducive to the improvement of agricultural science and technology.

5. The scattered management of small family fields increases the management cost of agricultural production.

6. The land system of rural household contract responsibility system lacks standardized legal protection, which restricts farmers’ ability to increase income through land management.

7. The household contract responsibility system cannot meet the needs of the development of market economy.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-Household Contract Responsibility System