The role of fine management techniques in relation to agricultural pollution and farmer income: the case of the fruit industry

Abstract

text is required. Whilst the agriculture enjoys booming development, it is facing increasingly serious environmental pressures. With the growth of fruit planting scale, the inorganic minerals elements are one of the main sources of non-point pollution. How to achieve the sustainable production of agriculture is an issue that needs urgent attention in the current rural development. In this paper, based on the micro-production data of peach farmers in eighteen prefecture-level provinces, we introduce fine management techniques into the production function to analyze the effects of different techniques and further explore the influence of fine management techniques on the fertilizer efficiency. Findings show that with no changes in the degree of fine management techniques investment, the increase of chemical fertilizers and pesticides not only made little contribution to increase in profit, but also resulted in excessive investment of fertilizers that worsens the environment. Notably, the fine management techniques exerting positive effects on the application efficiency of minerals elements could be an efficient and sustainable way to ease the conflict between environment and profit. However, those techniques are rarely used in practices due to the lack of economic incentives. A brief review of main measures, such as market information timely-updating，agricultural product branding, and socialized services, is offered.

Marine environmental pollution and offshore aquaculture structure: Evidence from China

“…The research on the impact of environmental pollution on industrial structure and production mode mainly focuses on industrial industries, that is, the difference of environmental regulation standards will lead to the relocation of high-polluting industries, and then promote the passive upgrading of industrial structure in this region; at the same time, environmental regulation will greatly enhance the "compliance cost" of enterprises, thus forcing enterprises to change production mode or improve production efficiency (Song and Wang, 2017;Wu et al, 2021). Although economics, ecology and other related disciplines have carried out a detailed and in-depth analysis on the impact of environmental pollution and economic activities, especially on agricultural production (Laekemariam et al, 2017;Saddique et al, 2020), there is still an expandable research space to a certain extent (Li et al, 2022a;Yuan et al, 2022). On the one hand, most of the existing studies focus on the micro level, that is, the impact on grain yield per unit area and fishermen income, and there is little research and analysis on the adjustment of fishery production structure from the macro level (Liu et al, 2022).…”

Production, Use and Recycling of Fruit Cultivating Bags in China

“…At present, fruit bagging technology has been widely used in China, Japan, the United States, India, South Korea and Bangladesh [9,13,14], but there are few literature reports on the recovery and reuse of waste fruit cultivating bags. China is a large fruit-producing country [15,16] and is also the country that uses the most fruit cultivating bags [17,18]. More attention should be paid to the recycling and resource reuse of fruit cultivating bags.…”