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, Yan; Shi, Xiaoping; Gao, Fugang

doi:10.3389/fenvs.2022.1008036

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“…Strengthening the application of science and technology and improving labor productivity are important ways to ensure food security and curb the decline in grain production. However, the small scale of production and the fragmentation of land have affected the application of agricultural technology, affected land investment, and increased production costs [5]. To ensure food security, providing full play to the advantages of large-scale grain production is an important strategy.…”

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Forecast and Factor Analysis on Willingness of Moderate Scale Land Transfer-In

Lin

Zhang²,

Huang³

2022

Sustainability

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The research on land transfer has essential theoretical and practical significance in ensuring food security and curbing the land de-graining. Based on the characteristics of large-scale and mechanized land in the H region of China, we constructed a prediction index for the willingness to transfer land in. The random forest (RF) algorithm was used to evaluate the importance of the factors affecting the land transfer-in willingness and the main factors were analyzed. The results show that: (1) The overall prediction accuracy of the RF model was 86.98% and the out-of-bag prediction error was 13.02%. (2) The factors that had an essential impact on the willingness to transfer to land were land area, the proportion of agricultural income, and crop type. The less influential factors were the size of the labor force, identity, and gender. (3) We found that 68% of the interviewed farmers wanted to increase land to expand the scale of production; this proportion was much higher than that in other parts of the country. The farmers were more willing to increase land to plant economic crops, which has a negative impact on the stability of food production. (4) Alleviating the negative impact of the Russian–Ukrainian conflict and stabilizing the production of economic crops, ensuring the safety of food production, and promoting the balanced development of food production and economic crops are topics that need to be continuously explored. This study can provide a useful reference for the development of the moderate-scale management of agriculture in China.

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Forecast and Factor Analysis on Willingness of Moderate Scale Land Transfer-In

Lin

Zhang²,

Huang³

2022

Sustainability

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Agricultural machinery service adoption and farmland transfer-in decision: evidence from rural China

Zhang

Jian

Yang

et al. 2023

Front. Environ. Sci.

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With the deepening of China’s agricultural labor division, the rapid development of agricultural machinery service has had a profound impact on farmland scale management. Based on the new classical economic and transaction cost theories, this paper investigates the impact mechanism of agricultural machinery service on farmers’ farmland transfer-in decision from the dual perspectives of transaction cost and benefit of labor division, and uses the national rural survey data on the Chinese Family Database to conduct empirical research by using the ordinary least square (OLS) model and limited information maximum likelihood (LIML) method. The study finds that, first, agricultural machinery service expands farmers’ farmland transfer-in decision by encouraging them to obtain the economic efficiency of labor division. Not only agricultural machinery service can alleviate the constraint of farmers’ farmland transfer in labor and capital but also reduce the service transaction cost and increase farmers’ share of the division of labor economy, which further stimulates farmers to expand the scale of management. Second, with the deepening of labor division of agricultural machinery services, the higher transaction efficiency of agricultural machinery service promotes farmers’ farmland transfer-in participation. As long as the marginal net benefit obtained is greater than zero, farmers have incentives to expand the scale of farmland. Therefore, in order to promote China’s farmland scale management, the professional, whole-process, and large-scale development of agricultural machinery services should be further promoted, and the service capacity and fields should be expanded so that outsourcing services can be better provided to agricultural production demanders. At the same time, the technical standards, supervision system, and service platform of agricultural machinery should be established and improved so as to enhance the bargaining position of farmers in service outsourcing transactions, thus promoting the development of agricultural division of labor to a higher level and realizing the mutual promotion and mutual benefit of agricultural machinery service subjects and agricultural land scale management subjects.

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The sustainability of grain production: the impact of agricultural productive services on farmers’ grain profits

Han,

Cui,

Chen

et al. 2024

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

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Increasing farmers’ grain profits is crucial for enhancing the sustainability of grain production and ensuring food security. As a widely applied agricultural management means at present, agricultural productive services are of great significance to study whether they can help increase farmers’ grain profits. This paper uses the micro-farmer data from the 2020 China Rural Revitalization Survey (CRRS). It employs an endogenous switching regression model and causal mediation analysis methods, which can address endogenous issues, to examine the impact of agricultural productive services on farmers’ grain profits and their underlying mechanisms. The results show: (1) Agricultural productive services significantly increase farmers’ grain profits and this conclusion is still robust after the robustness test. (2) The mechanism analysis indicates that agricultural productive services increase farmers’ grain profits through three pathways: yield enhancement, cost reduction, and efficiency improvement. (3) The heterogeneity analysis shows that agricultural productive services have a greater impact on increasing grain profits for farmers with lower grain profits, smaller operating scales, and lower degrees of farmland fragmentation. Our findings suggest that increasing support for agricultural productive services, fully leveraging the radiative driving role of service providers, and offering farmers various forms of productive services will be key measures to enhance farmers’ grain profits, promote sustainable grain production, and ensure food security.

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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

Cited by 3 publications

References 66 publications

Forecast and Factor Analysis on Willingness of Moderate Scale Land Transfer-In

Forecast and Factor Analysis on Willingness of Moderate Scale Land Transfer-In

Agricultural machinery service adoption and farmland transfer-in decision: evidence from rural China

The sustainability of grain production: the impact of agricultural productive services on farmers’ grain profits

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