Exploring the Role of Agricultural Services in Production Efficiency in Chinese Agriculture: A Case of the Socialized Agricultural Service System

Chen, Tao; Rizwan, Muhammad; Abbas, Azhar

doi:10.3390/land11030347

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“…Recent research indicates that agricultural socialized service organizations-with their technological, capital and human strengths-have implanted advanced elements into the agricultural industry chain that alleviate the adverse effects of smallholder resource shortages and fragmented operations. Contact between smallholder farmers and socialized service organizations may facilitate the adoption of farming techniques, improvements in agricultural efficiency and the reduction in fertilizer application [23,24]. In China, agricultural socialized services are an agricultural business model in which cooperatives, private agricultural service firms, and self-employed agricultural service agents provide agricultural services in all aspects of agriculture before, during and after production to smallholder farmers, such as agricultural materials supply, machine-rent, labor-hire services and so on [25].…”

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Assessing the Ability of Agricultural Socialized Services to Promote the Protection of Cultivated Land among Farmers

Cheng

Gao

Qiu

2022

Land

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Protecting and improving the quality of cultivated land is important to agricultural modernization. Based on data from a survey of 706 rice-growing households in Hunan, Jiangxi and Jiangsu, this paper uses the Probit model, CMP method and Biprobit model to systematically analyze the impact of agricultural socialized services on farmers’ cultivated land quality protection behaviors. This study finds that agricultural socialized services have a significantly positive impact on the adoption of soil testing formulas and straw returning technology among farmers, which can improve both the probability and the degree of cultivated land quality protection. The heterogeneity test results suggest that agricultural socialized services provide a higher incentive for the older generation of farmers to adopt arable land quality protection. In addition, we found that agricultural socialized services are more conducive to the protection of contracted land than transferred land. Therefore, we recommend that policies on agricultural socialized services be further implemented, the supply of agricultural socialized services be optimized, and the role of service organizations in publicizing and promoting cultivated land protection techniques be brought into play. We also posit that the simultaneous encouragement of farmers in using agricultural socialized services would protect the quality of cultivated land. During this process, additional attention should be paid to the response differentiation of peasants with different characteristics.

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Assessing the Ability of Agricultural Socialized Services to Promote the Protection of Cultivated Land among Farmers

Cheng

Gao

Qiu

2022

Land

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“…Agricultural mechanization plays an important supporting role in the transformation of agricultural production, and is the only way for China to realize agricultural modernization [61]. The use of agricultural machinery in agricultural production can significantly reduce agricultural labor costs and plant protection costs, such as weeding and pest control [62][63][64][65]. The use of agricultural machinery can also allow for multiple cropping, improve agricultural production capacity and farmland output rate [66,67] to increase the value of agricultural output [68], increase farmers' income [69], and reduce poverty.…”

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The Impact of High-Standard Farmland Construction Policy on Rural Poverty in China

Peng

Zhao

Chen

2022

Land

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As the core component of agricultural development projects, high-standard farmland construction is a reliable measure of agricultural production, and can be used to improve the economy in rural areas. Based on provincial panel data, this paper adopts the continuous difference-in-differences (DID) method to analyze the impact of China’s high-standard basic farmland construction policy on the incidence of rural poverty and its mechanisms. The results show that this policy can significantly reduce the incidence of rural poverty by 7.4%, and if, after using robust standard error and bootstrap sampling 1000 times for a robustness test, the regression results are still robust, this also shows that this inhibitory effect is stable and persistent. It can be seen from a heterogeneity analysis that the implementation of the policy has a more significant effect on poverty reduction in areas with a higher incidence of rural poverty and a larger scale of land remediation, as well as areas in the eastern and western regions. A mechanism analysis shows that natural disasters, output value and technological progress play a partial intermediary role in the poverty reduction effects of high-standard basic farmland construction policy, and the intermediary effects are 5.79%, 44.03%, and 14.13%, respectively. This paper suggests that we should continue to promote the construction of high-standard basic farmland, explore suitable construction modes of high-standard basic farmland for different regions, continuously promote the process of agricultural modernization, and broaden the ways through which rural residents are able to accumulate capital to promote rural poverty reduction and revitalization.

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“…With an increase in service intensity, socialized services have a larger scope of influence and can have a larger positive impact on optimizing fertilizer application in a larger scale [22] . This condition is sufficient for improving agricultural production efficiency through moderate-scale operations based on agricultural socialized services [23] .…”

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Optimization of chemical fertilizer use was modified by smallholders’ livelihood differentiation through mediating effects of agricultural socialized services

Huang

Jiao

et al. 2022

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As the mainstay of global food security feeding more with less is one of the major challenges faced by smallholder-dominated food production. This challenge has become increasingly more daunting due to the development of smallholders’ livelihood differentiation induced by urbanization. Usually, smallholders take insure approach to food production on chemical fertilizer use, considering the time of part-time jobs. With the continuous improvement of agricultural socialized services, it remains to be verified, whether the impact of smallholders’ livelihood differentiation on optimal chemical fertilizer application will be mitigated. Therefore, we conducted a study in seven provinces of China with 1112 smallholders. Through the mediation model, we found that: (1) the amount of chemical fertilizer use by smallholders was generally higher than the economically optimal level. (2) Smallholders with differentiated livelihoods can significantly reduce chemical fertilizer application and contribute to maintaining the optimal economic chemical fertilizer application level through the mediating effect of agricultural socialized services demand, which is approximately 13.03%. (3) With farmer livelihood differentiation, the increase in smallholders’ demand for socialized services includes not only an increase in the probability of service selection but also an increase in the demand for service intensity and organization degree of the service providers.

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Exploring the Role of Agricultural Services in Production Efficiency in Chinese Agriculture: A Case of the Socialized Agricultural Service System

Cited by 60 publications

References 61 publications

Assessing the Ability of Agricultural Socialized Services to Promote the Protection of Cultivated Land among Farmers

Assessing the Ability of Agricultural Socialized Services to Promote the Protection of Cultivated Land among Farmers

The Impact of High-Standard Farmland Construction Policy on Rural Poverty in China

Optimization of chemical fertilizer use was modified by smallholders’ livelihood differentiation through mediating effects of agricultural socialized services

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