“…Studies revealed an intrinsic coupling mechanism between rural education and agricultural modernization development (Baeten et al, 2013;Bordiuk et al, 2022;Komilova et al, 2021;Tri et al, 2022). The ratio of the average years of education in the labor force and the number of rural scientific and technical personnel had a significant effect on the technical efficiency and labor productivity in agriculture (Burdette et al, 2011;Lesyk et al, 2022;Loccoh et al, 2021;Sribna et al, 2022;Wu & Kim, 2021).…”