Agricultural mechanization and land productivity in China

Zhou, Xiaoshi; Ma, Wanglin

doi:10.1080/13504509.2022.2051638

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“…Similarly, mechanization has a positive and significant effect on the rice yield of Sichuan province at the 1% level, hence approving the Hypothesis (H1) . This result agrees with the findings of Zhou and Ma [ 57 ], who used data from 29 provinces in China and showed the positive nexus between mechanization and farming productivity.…”

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The Impact of Technological Progress and Climate Change on Food Crop Production: Evidence from Sichuan—China

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Agriculture is an integral sector in China mandated to feed over 1.3 billion of its people and provide essential inputs for many industries. Sichuan, a central grain-producing province in Southwest China, is a significant supplier of cereals in the country. Yet, it is likely to be threatened by yield damages induced by climate change. Therefore, this study examines the effects of technological progress (via fertilizers usage and mechanization) and climatic changes (via temperature and precipitation) on the productivity of main food crops, such as rice (Oryza sativa), wheat (Triticum aestivum), and maize (Zea mays) in Sichuan province. We employ the generalized method of moments (GMM) model to analyze Sichuan provincial data from 1980 to 2018. Our findings show a positive nexus between fertilizers use and yields of main food crops. Only rice and maize yields are significantly improved by mechanization. Increased average temperature reduces rice and wheat yields significantly. Rainfall is unlikely to have a significant impact on agricultural production. The study suggests that the Chinese government should consider revising its strategies and policies to reduce the impact of climate change on food crop production and increase farmers’ adaptive ability.

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The Impact of Technological Progress and Climate Change on Food Crop Production: Evidence from Sichuan—China

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Anh

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“…More ever the sector is characterized by a very large number of fragmented landholdings and vagaries relying mainly upon the summer rains in the presence of a lack of cultivatable land available ( United State Aid, 2020 ). The government intervention and financial and labor market development affect resource reallocation heterogeneously ( Zheng and Ma, 2022 ). Hence resource use inefficiency agriculture are the major causes of deforestation, environmental pollution, and land degradation worldwide ( Joneydi, 2012 ).…”

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“…More ever one approach for satisfying current and future demand on a sustainable basis without endangering future land resource usage is to increase productivity and more optimal and efficient resource use ( Friew, 2015 ). Toward this the factors influencing the farm performance were investigated including technical efficiency by mechanization levels ( Huan et al., 2022 ; Minah et al., 2022 ; Zhou and Ma 2022 ) improved agricultural technologies and practices ( Mohammed and Abdulai 2022 ; Nonvide 2021 ; Owusu et al., 2020 ; Setsoafia et al., 2022 ; Zheng et al., 2021a ), and information technologies ( Huang and Khan 2022 ; Ma and Zheng 2022 ; McFadden et al., 2022 ). However, little is known about how the introduction of drought-tolerant crops affects technical efficiency.…”

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Are farmers technically efficient in growing sorghum crops?: evidence from western part of Ethiopia Gudeya Bila district

Tesema

2022

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“…Cultivated land productivity is an important indicator for facilitating agricultural production, ensuring food security, and alleviating poverty as well as improving the welfare of farmers (Desiere and Jolliffe 2018;Khan et al, 2019;Zhou and Ma, 2022). In developing countries that have undergone the green revolution and structural transformation (such as China, Thailand, and Myanmar), the rural population has been attracted by increasing wage rates in the urban sector (Belton et al, 2021).…”

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“…First, our research focuses on the effect of AMS on cultivated land productivity at the micro-level by taking smallholders as the research sample. Despite evidence that mechanization affects cultivated land productivity (e.g., Ito, 2010;Zhou and Ma, 2022), the potential effects of AMS have been neglected in the existing literature. The adoption of AMS, as a market service purchase decision, represents neither an agricultural investment nor the acquisition of a household asset, but may allow smallholders to access mechanization that may have previously been held out of reach by financial constraints or small farm size.…”

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The impact of agricultural machinery services on cultivated land productivity and its mechanisms: A case study of Handan city in the North China plain

Liu

Shi

Gao

2022

Front. Environ. Sci.

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Studying the impact of agricultural machinery services (AMS) on cultivated land productivity is conducive to scientifically improving agricultural production and has far-reaching significance for ensuring food security. Taking Handan City in the North China Plain as the research context and using a surveyed sample of 1918 farming households, this paper examines the effect of AMS on the productivity of cultivated land using OLS estimation and estimates the average treatment effect on the treated (ATT) using the propensity score matching (PSM) method. The research findings are as follows. 1) AMS has a significantly positive impact on cultivated land productivity, and a heterogeneity analysis finds that the effects are larger for farmers with relatively less cultivated land and the marginal effects decrease as the adoption of AMS increases. 2) In various planting activities, AMS adoption in basic activities (e.g., ploughing, seeding, and harvesting) has positive effects on cultivated land productivity, while AMS adoption in management activities (e.g., fertilizing, irrigation, and pesticide spraying), has no obvious effect on cultivated land productivity. 3) According to the results of ATT, the conversion of non-adopting farmers to adopting AMS would increase cultivated land productivity by 7.6%–12.1%. 4) A mechanism analysis reveals that AMS adoption relieves financial constraints, improves technical efficiency, and increases smallholders’ crop yields. These results suggest that AMS has a positive effect on cultivated land productivity and therefore have valuable policy implications for increasing smallholders’ access to various types of AMS to improve the productivity of cultivated land in regions dominated by smallholders.

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Agricultural mechanization and land productivity in China

Cited by 34 publications

References 51 publications

The Impact of Technological Progress and Climate Change on Food Crop Production: Evidence from Sichuan—China

The Impact of Technological Progress and Climate Change on Food Crop Production: Evidence from Sichuan—China

Are farmers technically efficient in growing sorghum crops?: evidence from western part of Ethiopia Gudeya Bila district

The impact of agricultural machinery services on cultivated land productivity and its mechanisms: A case study of Handan city in the North China plain

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