Analyzing inter-factor substitution and technical progress in the Chinese agricultural sector

Energy efficiency and production technology heterogeneity in China's agricultural sector: A meta-frontier approach

“…These kinds of models can avoid misspecification and are applied widely (Lin and Fei, 2015;Lin and Du, 2014). Besides, Boyd (2008) developed a stochastic metafrontier analysis to estimate plant energy efficiency and is later widely used Lin and Du, 2013).…”

“…Theoretically, the growth of agricultural output comes from two aspects: increase in input factors and progress of agricultural technology (Lin and Fei, 2015). In recent years, China's agricultural labor force continues to decline and cultivated land and water resources also become relatively scarce.…”

Energy Substitution Effect on China’s Heavy Industry: Perspectives of a Translog Production Function and Ridge Regression

“…Inter-fuel substitution is mainly about energy structure optimization, while inter-factor substitution is about the effective allocation of social resources, including energy, capital, labor and other input factors for production. Typically, by adjusting the proportion of other input factors on the basis of changes in the relative price of energy, the optimal marginal production of energy inputs can be achieved and perhaps realize the purpose of energy conservation [8]. As interfuel substitution is subject to certain factors like resource endowments, technology and total costs, people tend to focus more on inter-factor substitution between energy and other input factors [9,10].…”

Regional differences of CO2 emissions performance in China’s agricultural sector: A Malmquist index approach

“…For the agriculture sector, the proportion of energy consumption in total energy consumption is about 6% (China Statistical Yearbook), which is still lower compared to other industries. As a result, energy consumption in agricultural production has not drawn sufficient attention from the public for a long time (Lin and Fei, 2015). In 2007, the development of agricultural mechanization in China entered the intermediate stage, and farming integrated mechanization level exceeded 40%.…”