More Land, Less Pollution? How Land Transfer Affects Fertilizer Application

Wu, Junqian; Wen, Xin; Qi, Xiulin; Fang, Shile; Xu, Chenxi

doi:10.3390/ijerph182111268

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“…Agricultural subsidy is an incentive guarantee for households to engage in agricultural production activities [ 45 ]. Table 4 demonstrates that land inflow contributes 6% or more to household income than land outflow, as household inflow of land expands the scale of household cultivation [ 28 ]. Households then increase production efficiency through continuous mechanized production, which in turn reduces the cost of agricultural production.…”

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“…Since the existence is usually ensured by activities out of the farm and the maintenance of farming is of secondary importance from economic aspects, so family ideas and farm works factors have a great influence on family behavioral decisions [ 26 ]. Factors such as the degree of land fragmentation, mechanised use and economic development of the village all have a significant impact on the decision to transfer land by farming households [ 27 , 28 ]. In addition, household labour force structure and households with public officials have the advantage of capturing information about transactions, thus increasing the opportunities of land transaction [ 29 ].…”

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A study of the impact of land transfer decisions on household income in rural China

Wang

Wang²

2022

PLoS ONE

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As an important measure to enhance the allocation of land resources and achieve moderate scale operation in China, land transfer has an irreplaceable role in giving full play to the social and economic value of land. This paper uses data from the China Family Panel Studies in 2018 and applies OLS, PSM and mediator effects to study the impact of land transfer on household income. The results of the study show that: firstly, participation in land transfer can significantly increase the income level of farming households, but the impact of different land transfer acts on household income varies. Secondly, the age and physical condition of the household head, the number of agricultural and non-agricultural members in the household and the poverty status of the household all have a negative effect on household income. On the other hand, the education level of the household head, the household size and the presence of village officials in the household, agricultural subsidies, land titling and land size all have a positive effect on household income. Thirdly, the impact on household income for households that did not participate in land transfer is greater than for those that did. The results of the mediator effect test show that land transfer has a significant effect on household farm income, and that farm income has a full mediator effect, but all have a positive significant effect on household income.

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A study of the impact of land transfer decisions on household income in rural China

Wang

Wang²

2022

PLoS ONE

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“…According to the monitoring data of Chinese family farms in 2018, large-scale farmers managed an average of 15 scattered plots, and some farmers even managed as many as 1269 scattered plots [ 54 ]. Farmland fragmentation helped to reduce PM 2.5 [ 29 ].…”

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“…Farmers with large farms are the main force in China’s future use of organic fertilizers, as they can pursue greater long-term agricultural benefits in this way [ 28 ]. Under the condition of reducing the number of applied chemical fertilizers, large-scale land management will not lead to a decline in output [ 29 ]. Meanwhile, for every 1% increase in farm scale, fertilizer use efficiency increases by 0.2%, reducing the environmental pollution caused by excessive use of chemical fertilizers [ 30 ].…”

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Assessing the Relationship among Land Transfer, Fertilizer Usage, and PM2.5 Pollution: Evidence from Rural China

Guo

Song

Tang

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Concern for environmental issues is a crucial component in achieving the goal of sustainable development of humankind. Different countries face various challenges and difficulties in this process, which require unique solutions. This study investigated the relationship between land transfer, fertilizer usage, and PM2.5 pollution in rural China from 2000 to 2019, considering their essential roles in agricultural development and overall national welfare. A cross section dependence test, unit root test, and cointegration test, among other methods, were used to test the panel data. A Granger causality test was used to determine the causal relationship between variables, and an empirical analysis of the impulse response and variance decomposition was carried out. The results show that the use of chemical fertilizers had a significant positive impact on PM2.5 pollution, but the impact of land transfer on PM2.5 pollution was negative. In addition, land transfer can reduce the use of chemical fertilizers through economies of scale, thus reducing air pollution. More specifically, for every 1% increase in fertilizer usage, PM2.5 increased by 0.17%, and for every 1% increase in land transfer rate, PM2.5 decreased by about 0.07%. The study on the causal relationship between land transfer, fertilizer usage, and PM2.5 pollution in this paper is helpful for exploring environmental change—they are supplements and innovations which are based on previous studies and provide policy-makers with a basis and inspiration for decision-making.

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“…Qiao and Huang (2021), in a study of 306 cotton farmers in China, also found that the risk preference had a negative effect on fertilizer application intensity when the likelihood of fertilizer application achieving the desired effect was high, and a positive effect on fertilizer application intensity when the likelihood of achieving the desired effect was low. Regarding the effect of farmers' operation characteristics on fertilizer application, most studies found that operation scale had a negative effect on fertilizer application intensity (Guo et al, 2018;Wu et al, 2021) and a positive effect on fertilizer utilization efficiency (Zhu et al, 2022). A study by Wu et al (2021) on data from fixed observation sites in rural China found that expanding the operation scale by land transfer had a significantly negative effect on food crop cultivation and farmers' fertilizer application intensity in northwest of China.…”

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Effect of agricultural subsidies on heterogeneous farmers’ fertilizer application intensity and its mediating mechanism: Based on China household finance survey database

Feng²,

Xiao³

2022

Front. Environ. Sci.

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Agricultural subsidies have an important effect on the farmer’s fertilizer application behavior, but the differences in the effect on different farmers and its mediating mechanism have not been sufficiently studied. Using relevant data from the CFHS database in 2015, this paper focused on the differences in the effect of agricultural subsidies on fertilizer application intensity among farmers with different operation scales and planting structures, as well as the mediating mechanism of the effect of agricultural subsidies on farmers’ fertilizer application intensity. It was found that agricultural subsidies in general helped farmers reduce fertilizer application. This finding still held after replacing the explanatory variables. However, the effect of agricultural subsidies on fertilizer application intensity varied significantly across farmers with different operation scales and planting structures. The fertilizer reduction effect of agricultural subsidies was weakened by the increase in the operation scale and the share of food crop cultivation, i.e., the fertilizer reduction effect of agricultural subsidies on smaller farmers and cash crop cultivation was greater relative to larger farmers and food crop cultivation. Farmers’ operation scale, planting structure and farm machinery inputs are important mediating variables of the effect of agricultural subsidies on farmers’ fertilizer application intensity. The agricultural subsidies played a role in reducing fertilizer application intensity by encouraging farmers to expand their operation scale and increase food crop cultivation, and increased fertilizer application intensity by incentivizing farmers to purchase farm machinery and adopt mechanical farming. Finally, some suggestions were put forward to play the fertilizer reduction effect of agricultural subsidies based on the findings of the study.

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More Land, Less Pollution? How Land Transfer Affects Fertilizer Application

Cited by 26 publications

References 25 publications

A study of the impact of land transfer decisions on household income in rural China

A study of the impact of land transfer decisions on household income in rural China

Assessing the Relationship among Land Transfer, Fertilizer Usage, and PM2.5 Pollution: Evidence from Rural China

Effect of agricultural subsidies on heterogeneous farmers’ fertilizer application intensity and its mediating mechanism: Based on China household finance survey database

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