Based on the panel data of farmers' income collected from six provinces in central China during the period of 1993—2010,this paper uses Mann-Kendall nonparametric test method to analyze the growth trend of farmers’ net income before and after rural tax reform,as well as the four sources of incomes (wage income,family business income,property income and transfer income).The result shows that,after the rural tax reform,the income of farmers in central China dominated by wage income and family business income increases significantly,but the absolute differences between its per capita net income and national average level are broadened,the relative gap is gradually narrowed,which means that rural tax reform has achieved its basic phased goals.Therefore,this paper puts forward several countermeasures on how to further realize the quick increase of farmer’s income in central China:to rapidly develop family-run business and gradually broaden the scope of farmer’s family income; to guide farmer’s employment in non-agricultural sectors in an orderly way and positively expand the growing space of income from labor services; to push forward rural comprehensive reform and increase farmer’s property income in central China and finally to strengthen the financial support for rural areas and enhance the transfer payment for farmers.