Does rural industrial integration improve agricultural productivity? Implications for sustainable food production

Feng, Yanfang; Qin, Shengze; Nisar, Nimra; Zhang, Qing; Tong, Ting; Wang, Lang

doi:10.3389/fsufs.2023.1191024

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“…This outcome can be attributed to the fact that agricultural extension centers at the county level and above possess stronger faculty and more effective skill transfer capabilities compared to those at the township level. This finding aligns with the notion that technical training, similar to education, exhibits a positive trend in terms of faculty quality and desired outcomes as the level of training increases (Ye et al, 2023).…”

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The impact of land consolidation on rapeseed cost efficiency in China: policy implications for sustainable land use and food security

Zhang,

Ye,

Razzaq

et al. 2024

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

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The relationship between farm size expansion and efficiency is a key topic in agricultural economics, especially for achieving sustainable land use and food security. While existing literature focuses on land productivity, technical efficiency, and total factor productivity, the link between farm size and cost efficiency remains less explored. Cost efficiency is a critical indicator of production effectiveness and directly impacts agricultural sustainability and food security. This paper analyzes how farm size expansion affects the cost efficiency of Chinese rapeseed production, with a particular emphasis on sustainable agricultural production and food security. Our findings indicate an average cost efficiency of 0.740 for rapeseed in China, suggesting potential for improvement. We observe an inverted U-shaped relationship between farm size and rapeseed cost efficiency, with variations based on regional and topographic conditions. Optimal rapeseed farm size is between 10 and 30 mu in eastern and central China, and smaller than 10 mu in western China. Interestingly, in central China and plains regions, larger farm sizes have a less negative impact on cost efficiency. Finally, increasing plot size positively moderates the relationship between farm size and rapeseed cost efficiency, suggesting benefits from expanding both plot and farm sizes simultaneously. These findings provide empirical evidence to inform policy decisions related to sustainable land use, cost-efficient agriculture, and food security.

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confidence: 86%

The impact of land consolidation on rapeseed cost efficiency in China: policy implications for sustainable land use and food security

Zhang,

Ye,

Razzaq

et al. 2024

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

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“…A possible explanation is that for farmers with lower levels of maize specialization, the area and share of maize planted are lower, and the MSSR has a limited impact on their returns and does not change their planting decisions, so the MSSR does not have an impact on their maize productivity. For more specialized maize farmers, due to market price differentials, farmers tend to choose high-quality varieties or improve the soil to improve the quality of maize, thus significantly increasing their maize productivity (Ye et al, 2023b).…”

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Policy-driven food security: investigating the impact of China’s maize subsidy policy reform on farmer’ productivity

Ye,

Qin,

et al. 2024

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IntroductionChina is the largest producer, consumer, and trader of grain. Changes in China’s agricultural policies will affect global food trade and thus impact food security. In this paper, we use China’s maize subsidy system reform (MSSR) as a quasi-natural experiment to investigate the impact of market-oriented reforms in price support policy on the productivity of grain.MethodsWe use official Chinese government panel data on farm households and a PSM-DID model to overcome the endogeneity problem of policy change.Results and discussionThe empirical results show that MSSR can increase maize productivity. The MSSR is divided into two phases: eliminating the maize purchase price and implementing maize producer subsidies. The policy effect of eliminating the purchase price exceeds the implementation of producer subsidies. Further analysis reveals that for farmers with a larger scale of cultivation, higher level of specialization, and higher degree of part-time employment, the MSSR enhances their productivity more significantly. In the high quartile, the MSSR reduces farmers’ productivity. In the low quartile, the MSSR raises farmers’ productivity, suggesting that the MSSR reduces the productivity differences among farmers. The results of our study suggest that market-based reform of price subsidies is an effective institutional arrangement to mitigate resource mismatch and increase food productivity, and point to the need to continue to improve the MSSR, explore diversified maize producer subsidy policies, and take into account the impact of other subsidies on farmers’ maize production behavior.

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“…In terms of the integrated development dimension, the integration of agricultural industries is indispensable [38]. The deep integration of agriculture with industries such as ecology, culture, tourism, and elderly care represents an inevitable choice.…”

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The Spatiotemporal Impact of Digital Economy on High-Quality Agricultural Development: Evidence from China

Li,

Liu

2024

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China’s high-quality economic development is strongly supported by the high-quality development of agriculture, and the digital economy has emerged as a key driver for promoting shared prosperity and high-quality economic development. Against this backdrop, investigating the connection between high-quality agricultural development and the digital economy holds significant importance. This study utilized the entropy-weighted TOPSIS model to evaluate comprehensive evaluation indicators of the two according to panel data from 30 provinces in China between 2011 and 2021. Subsequently, GIS spatial analysis and exploratory spatial data analysis (ESDA) were employed to investigate the spatiotemporal evolution features and spatial correlations. Finally, the spatiotemporal geographically weighted regression (GTWR) model was constructed to examine the spatiotemporal impact of the digital economy on the advancement of high-quality agricultural growth. The results indicate that: (1) from 2011 to 2021, China’s high-quality agricultural development and digital economy both demonstrated a general increasing trend. In terms of spatial distribution, there were significant spatial variations, with a general trend of “Southeast is higher, whereas the Northwest is lower”. The regions with significant value were primarily clustered in the coastal areas in the east and several provincial capitals. (2) Both of the two exhibited significant global spatial self-correlation, and there were also significant spatiotemporal clustering effects in high-quality agricultural growth, gradually forming a high-value cluster centered around Shanghai and a low-value cluster centered around western provinces. (3) The digital economy positively influences the enhancement of high-quality agricultural development, demonstrating notable spatial and temporal heterogeneity. In contrast to the southeastern areas, the influence is more pronounced in the northern and central-western areas.

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Does rural industrial integration improve agricultural productivity? Implications for sustainable food production

Cited by 18 publications

References 64 publications

The impact of land consolidation on rapeseed cost efficiency in China: policy implications for sustainable land use and food security

The impact of land consolidation on rapeseed cost efficiency in China: policy implications for sustainable land use and food security

Policy-driven food security: investigating the impact of China’s maize subsidy policy reform on farmer’ productivity

The Spatiotemporal Impact of Digital Economy on High-Quality Agricultural Development: Evidence from China

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