Impact of outsourced machinery services on farmers' green production behavior: Evidence from Chinese rice farmers

Chen, Qing; Zhou, Wenfeng; Song, Jiahao; Deng, Xin; Xu, Dingde

doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2022.116843

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“…On the one hand, there are natural differences in the types of crops suitable for cultivation in different topographic regions. Differences in transportation and irrigation conditions due to geographical features can also have an important impact on farmers' willingness to grow food, and the adoption of APSS by farmers will reduce arable land abandonment [40] and promote green production behavior [41]. On the other hand, the geographic environment is a key factor affecting the service radius of APSS supply agents [42], which determines the adaptability of supply agents and APSS, and the high degree of fragmentation of arable land and inconvenient transportation in non-plain areas reduce the efficiency of agricultural machinery operation and raise the cost of agricultural machinery operation [43].…”

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Land Transfer or Trusteeship: Can Agricultural Production Socialization Services Promote Grain Scale Management?

Zhou

Zhang

et al. 2023

Land

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Grain Scale Management (GSM) is a crucial factor in ensuring national food security. However, in countries facing rigid resource constraints and complex land tenure relationships, the strategy of promoting large-scale grain management through land management rights transfer may not be sustainable. Therefore, based on the traditional agricultural division of labor theory, we analyze the mechanism and rationality of Agricultural Production Socialization Services (APSS) with scale characteristics to promote GSM and propose a new approach to GSM with empirical evidence from China. Using county-level panel data from Hubei province spanning from 2010 to 2021, we construct a multi-period double difference model based on the difference in the time of the establishment of pilot agricultural production socialization service counties in Hubei province. Our empirical results demonstrate the role of APSS in promoting GSM at the macro level. Specifically, the establishment of pilot counties for APSS significantly improves the level of local GSM. Furthermore, our study reveals that the degree of local financial intervention, regional industrial structure, and regional topography have heterogeneous effects on the implementation of the policy.

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Land Transfer or Trusteeship: Can Agricultural Production Socialization Services Promote Grain Scale Management?

Zhou

Zhang

et al. 2023

Land

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“…Because of farm-time constraints and cost-saving motivation, trusteeship organizations usually rely on the advantage of large scale and use large-and medium-sized agricultural machinery. Large-and medium-sized agricultural machinery can reduce diesel consumption per mu of arable land through efficient operation [39]. At the same time, the large-scale agricultural machinery service will greatly reduce the losses of agricultural machinery when transferring from one plot of field to another, and reduce the amount of diesel oil used.…”

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“…The above conclusions are in good agreement with other relevant studies. Some researchers found that the use of no-tillage technology, organic-fertilizer-application technology and straw-returning technology of the farm households who have purchased socialized services is 10-15 percent higher than that of those who have not [39]. In addition, it has also been documented that conservation-tillage technology is beneficial in reducing agricultural carbon emission, and after adopting the technology, the greenhouse gas emission of winter wheat in Canadian experimental fields in normal years was 577 kg/ha (38.5 kg/mu) [46].…”

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“…This aspect also studied by other researchers. For example, Qing et al [39] found that the adoption rates of no-tillage technology, organic fertilizer application technology and straw returning technology by the farm households after they have purchased machinery outsourcing services have increased by about 10.6%, 14.5% and 12%, respectively, compared with when they did not purchase the services. These studies confirm that farm households are more inclined to adopt green production technology after purchasing machinery outsourcing services.…”

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Effect of Agricultural Production Trusteeship on Agricultural Carbon Emission Reduction

Sun,

Guang,

Cao

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Agriculture

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Based on the survey data of five large grain-producing provinces in China, this paper studies the effect of agricultural production trusteeship on agricultural carbon emission reduction by using a propensity score matching method. The empirical results show that the carbon emission of wheat reduces by 7.107 kg/mu, with a decrease rate of 15.5% after participating in agricultural production trusteeship. Among them, chemical fertilizers, manpower input, agricultural chemicals and diesel oil, respectively, reduce with rates of 14.2%, 27.7%, 14.1%, and 6%. However, there are differences in the facilitation effects of different trusteeship services, with the best promotion effect of field management services, followed by cultivation, planting and harvest services, and then agricultural material supply services, for which the average treatment effects on treated (ATT) is −6.160, −5.732 and −5.530, respectively. Meanwhile, there are differences in the promotion effects for farm households with different factor endowments. The promotion effect is better for small farm households with one type of agricultural machinery or less, and an operation scale of 7 mu or less. Therefore, in order to better play the role of agricultural production trusteeship in agricultural carbon emission reduction, the government should vigorously support its development and guide more smallholders to choose agricultural production trusteeship.

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“…Some scholars have also studied the causal effect between agricultural socialized services and fertilizer use. They argued that the service scale advantage of agricultural socialized services could help farmers overcome the limitations of their own factor endowment, as well as alleviate the problems of excessive fertilizer application caused by labor constraints and technological access barriers caused by financial constraints [21,22], which is helpful to reduce farmers' fertilizer use. Biswas et al (2021) analyzed the data of 120 rice farmers in rural areas in southwestern Bangladesh, showing that farmers who participated in agricultural extension services used less fertilizer than those who did not [23].…”

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Can Agricultural Socialized Services Promote the Reduction in Chemical Fertilizer? Analysis Based on the Moderating Effect of Farm Size

Chen

Liu

2023

IJERPH

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On the basis of the data of 855 farmer households in the 2020 China Land Economic Survey, this paper uses an extended regression model to empirically study the impact of agricultural socialized services on the reduction in chemical fertilizer and the moderating effect of farm size in the above impact path. The results show that adoption of agricultural socialized services by farmers can significantly promote reduction in chemical fertilizer. The moderating effect test shows that the farm size is instrumental in strengthening the effect of promoting agricultural socialized services on the reduction in chemical fertilizer. The effect of technology-intensive services on fertilizer reduction was more pronounced than that of labor-intensive services. Agricultural socialized services have a greater effect on the reduction in chemical fertilizer for farmers with a higher degree of part-time employment, but farm size can significantly enhance the fertilizer reduction effect generated by the adoption of agricultural socialized services by farmers with a lower degree of part-time employment. Therefore, we recommend further developing agricultural socialized services, strengthening the supply of agricultural green production services, and playing the role of agricultural socialized services in chemical fertilizer reduction. We also posit that encouraging large-scale farmers to adopt agricultural socialized services would further promote fertilizer reduction.

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Impact of outsourced machinery services on farmers' green production behavior: Evidence from Chinese rice farmers

Cited by 61 publications

References 30 publications

Land Transfer or Trusteeship: Can Agricultural Production Socialization Services Promote Grain Scale Management?

Land Transfer or Trusteeship: Can Agricultural Production Socialization Services Promote Grain Scale Management?

Effect of Agricultural Production Trusteeship on Agricultural Carbon Emission Reduction

Can Agricultural Socialized Services Promote the Reduction in Chemical Fertilizer? Analysis Based on the Moderating Effect of Farm Size

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