Abstract: The purpose of the agricultural modernization is to improve the land productivity. From the perspective of the farmland transfer, this paper selected the land productivity and the labor productivity as two indicators to measure the farmland production efficiency, based on a 327-household survey data in Manas, a typical county in the northern slope economic zone of the Tianshan mountains in Xinjiang, using multiple linear regression model to analyze the impact of land transfer and land fragmentation on the farmland production efficiency. The results showed that the farmland transfer-in had a positive and significant impact on the increase of the labor productivity while the transfer-out had a positive relationship with the land productivity. There was a negative correlation between land productivity and land fragmentation. Therefore, this paper proposed that in the process of land transfer it is necessary to guide farmers through a variety ways to achieve the concentration of land contiguous operations, to reduce the degree of land fragmentation and to improve the moderate scale management of the agriculture land.

Key words: farmers, land transfer, production efficiency, multiple linear regression, Manas county, the northern slope economic zone of the Tianshan mountains