Research on Spatial-Temporal Characteristics and Affecting Factors of Agricultural Green Total Factor Productivity in Jiangxi Province

Abstract

Increasing green total factor productivity is the key to achieving green development in agriculture. This study measured the green total factor productivity of Jiangxi’s agriculture, and its regional and temporal evolution characteristics were examined. The fixed-effects model was then used to investigate the model’s fundamental components empirically. The study’s findings reveal the following: During the period under review, technical change was the primary element driving the rise in the green total factor productivity of agriculture. A rising “U”-shaped trend with notable regional variances characterizes the spatial and temporal evolution. The primary factors that affect changes in green total factor productivity in agriculture include the ease of transportation, the per capita disposable income of rural residents, the level of agricultural mechanization, the degree of urbanization, the level of financial support for agriculture, and the percentage of workers in secondary industries, with the impact effect values of 0.581, 0.647, −0.126, −0.729, −0.326, and −0.559, respectively. As a result, it is suggested that in order to substantially increase agricultural green total factor productivity, agricultural green technological support should be strengthened, more fully developed, and promoted in a multi-pronged approach.

Chinese Agriculture for “Green and Grain” Productivity Growth: Evidence from Jiangsu Province

“…This study identifies the sources of green growth in Jiangsu's agriculture at the provincial, sub-regional and municipal levels, and finds that its growth is largely contributed to the effect of movement in the frontiers of technology; in other words, growth is mainly generated by advances in the green technology frontier led by pioneering practitioners, while the laggards' lack of enthusiasm in catching up with these frontiers is a bottleneck factor for growth. This result is broadly consistent with regional empirical studies measuring TFP growth in Chinese agriculture at the provincial level [22,26,30]. China's government-led agricultural STI system, through public agricultural R&D and extension networks, has achieved world-renowned success in increasing grain productivity; this includes the breeding of super-rice varieties and their large-scale dissemination among farmers.…”

“…There has been much academic and policy interest in exploring China's agricultural growth in the context of market-led economic reforms via the introduction of this tool [19][20][21], as well as the regional heterogeneity of agricultural productivity changes [22,23]. Green development in agriculture has attracted a new wave of research [24,25], with much of the research focusing on how Green Total Factor Productivity (GTFP) [26][27][28] might be measured and its drivers explored [29][30][31]. To date, few studies have investigated the sources of such green productivity growth from the perspective of an STI system with Chinese characteristics, which is the policy value of the tool.…”

The Effect of Industrial Agglomeration on Agricultural Green Production Efficiency: Evidence from China

“…Table 8 demonstrates that when the logarithm of land transfer increased, the coefficient value of industrial agglomeration for agricultural green production efficiency declined from 0.611 to 0.218, and the t-value was reduced from 4.92 to 2.53, which indicated that there was a characteristic of a diminishing marginal effect of industrial agglomeration on the promotion of agricultural green production efficiency. A possible reason is that, on the one hand, the development of industrial agglomeration required continuous adjustment of the industrial structure to meet the market competition, and smooth land transfer is a necessary condition for bringing into play the effect of industrial agglomeration; however, frequent land transfer leads to an excessive adjustment of the planting structure, and production operators, out of the pursuit of profit maximization, turn from food crops to cash-crop planting, which relies more on chemical fertilizers, pesticides, and other chemicals, thus changing the original intensive production method and leading to a weakening of the effect of industrial agglomeration on the enhancement of agricultural green production efficiency through land transfer [59]. On the other hand, with the deepening of land transfer, land resources and production may be controlled by capital.…”