Off-shoring and labor productivity: Evidence from China

Cai, Hansheng; Zhang, Xiangjun

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“…The mode of agricultural production in China is dominated by small-scale family operations, under this basic national condition, the material cost and time cost required for ecological farming are high. The aging labor force is prone to the exclusion of new technologies of agricultural machinery and techniques due to constraints in physical and cognitive abilities, and the degree of their application is also low (Chen et al, 2011;Cai and Zhang, 2015;Wei and Song, 2022). Compared with conventional pesticides, biopesticides are less resistant and environmentally friendly.…”

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Aging agricultural labor force, outsourcing service of pest control and biopesticide application: a case study of 10 counties in Fujian Province

Shen,

Wang,

Cai

2024

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

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IntroductionUnder the background of increasingly severe aging of agricultural labor force and relatively slow land circulation, agricultural production outsourcing has become the main means of agricultural modernization. Despite the existence of a voluminous literature on outsourcing service of pest control, little is known about its effect on biopesticides use.MethodsTo fill this knowledge gap, this study uses rice planting data from 1,045 Chinese farm households to analyze the impact of different aging agricultural households and the pest control outsourcing service on the application of biopesticides by using the logit regression model.Results and DiscussionThe study results showed that: (1) Participation in pest control outsourcing services significantly promotes biopesticide application. But this positive effect varied across age groups. (2) Compared with aging households, non-aging farmers tend to use biopesticides. Given this, it is recommended that pay attention to the ecological effect of pest control outsourcing services, strengthen the assistance to the aging labor group in the green pesticide promotion policy, and guide the aged planting decision makers to participate in pest control outsourcing services, thereby effectively improving the sustainable development of green agriculture.

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confidence: 99%

Aging agricultural labor force, outsourcing service of pest control and biopesticide application: a case study of 10 counties in Fujian Province

Shen,

Wang,

Cai

2024

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

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Off-shoring and labor productivity: Evidence from China

Abstract: off-shoring, material off-shoring, service off-shoring, labor, productivity, industrial sector, F02, F14,

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Aging agricultural labor force, outsourcing service of pest control and biopesticide application: a case study of 10 counties in Fujian Province

Aging agricultural labor force, outsourcing service of pest control and biopesticide application: a case study of 10 counties in Fujian Province

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