Space Comparison of Agricultural Green Growth in Agricultural Modernization: Scale and Quality

• Published in: Agriculture (Basel) Vol. 12; no. 7; p. 1067
• Main Authors: Huang, Tingting, Xiong, Bin
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI AG 01.07.2022
• Subjects: Agricultural development; agricultural green growth; agricultural green total factor productivity; agricultural modernization; Agricultural production; Agricultural technology; Agriculture; Carbon; Clean technology; Data envelopment analysis; Decision making; Decomposition; Economic development; Economic growth; Efficiency; Environmental policy; green agricultural GDP; high-quality development of agriculture; Literature reviews; Modernization; Political parties; Productivity; Prosperity; Public services; Rural areas; spatiotemporal evolution; Sustainable agriculture; Sustainable development; Technology utilization; China
• ISSN: 2077-0472; 2077-0472
• DOI: 10.3390/agriculture12071067

Promoting agricultural green growth has become an indispensable key content to speed up the process of agricultural modernization, has become a necessary prerequisite to achieve common prosperity of the rural people, and has become the basic practice of implementing people-centered development thought in the stage of high-quality development. Many researchers have studied the problems, level measurement and route choice of the growth of agriculture. However, there have been few studies on how to promote the agricultural green growth from the perspective of agricultural modernization, and how to combine the green agricultural GDP with the agricultural green total factor productivity (GTFP). To address this research inadequacy, in this paper, we focus on the time and space comparison of green agricultural GDP, agricultural GTFP, and their source decomposition, and summarize and discuss the key factors affecting agricultural GTFP. The results show that the share of output value of green agriculture in Tongren City is relatively high within the region of the province, and there is a large temporal and spatial difference between the change of agricultural GTFP and agricultural technology utilization efficiency and agricultural technology progress. At the same time, the improvement of economic development level can significantly promote the rise of agricultural GTFP, agricultural technology utilization efficiency, and agricultural technology progress. On balance, our results compare green agricultural GDP, agricultural GTFP, and their source decomposition in time and space, and reveals their evolution law and development trend from the perspective of high-quality development of agricultural modernization. In this way, we can provide an empirical basis and decision-making reference for accelerating the high-quality development of agricultural modernization.