The Agricultural Green Production following the Technological Progress: Evidence from China

Shuxing Xiao; Zuxin He; Weikun Zhang; Xiaoming Qin

doi:10.3390/ijerph19169876

The Agricultural Green Production following the Technological Progress: Evidence from China

Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 Aug 10;19(16):9876. doi: 10.3390/ijerph19169876.

Authors

Shuxing Xiao^{1

2}, Zuxin He³, Weikun Zhang⁴, Xiaoming Qin⁵

Affiliations

¹ School of Public Administration and Law, Hunan Agricultural University, Changsha 410128, China.
² School of Teacher Education, Shaoguan University, Shaoguan 512005, China.
³ School of Economics, Guangdong University of Finance & Economics, Guangzhou 510320, China.
⁴ School of Social and Public Administration, Lingnan Normal University, Zhanjiang 524088, China.
⁵ Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Aquatic Products Processing and Safety, Guangdong Ocean University, Zhanjiang 524088, China.

Abstract

This study performs the spatial Durbin model (SDM) and threshold model to analyze the efficiency of agricultural green production following technological progress from 1998 through 2019. The SDM supports a nonlinear contribution of technological progress spillover to agricultural green total factor productivity (GTFP), exacerbated by upgrading agricultural structure. Moreover, the threshold model confirms that technological progress has a single threshold effect on agricultural GTFP with the rationalization of the agrarian system as a threshold variable; meanwhile, the contribution of technological progress to agricultural GTFP is less than that of agricultural total factor productivity. Out of the expanded application of dissipative structure theory in agricultural GTFP systems innovatively, this study reveals the urgency to strengthen the innovation of independent technology, lower the threshold for introducing technology, and optimize the agrarian structure in the long-term sustainable agriculture for the economies that are undergoing a similar development stage as China.

Keywords: agricultural green production; green total factor productivity; spillover effect; technological progress; threshold effect.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Agriculture*
China
Economic Development
Efficiency
Technology*

Grants and funding

This work was supported by Guangdong Philosophy and Social Science Planning Project (Grant Number: GD20YDXZGL08), the Grant-in-Aid for Humanities and Social Sciences Project in Zhanjiang (Grant Number: ZJ22YB21), the Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship Training Project, Lingnan Normal University (Grant Number: X202210579027), and Sichuan revolutionary base area development research center (Grant Number: SLQ2021CD-06).