The Impact of Agricultural Service on Grain Production in China

Qiao, Fangbin

doi:10.3390/su12156249

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“…Secondly, service collaboration can improve the service quality of agricultural machinery through the specialization of service quality and service means, and then realize the high-quality operation of conservation tillage. In the aspect of service quality specialization, in order to ensure the service quality of agricultural machinery service, the service subjects in the service alliance reach a consensus through service coordination, that is, each subject needs to provide agricultural machinery service in a standardized and high-quality way, so that the implementation of the whole conservation tillage technology system can get professional and high-quality services (Qiao, 2020), and then realize the high-quality operation of conservation tillage technology system. At the same time, in terms of specialization of service means, service alliances will sign full-process service agreements with farmers in the form of alliances through service collaboration (Tang et al, 2018).…”

Section: Theoretical Framework and Hypothesesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Multi-agent Collaborative Participation of Agricultural Machinery Service, High Quality Operation and Agricultural Production Efficiency: A Case Study of Conservation Tillage Technology

Zhang

Shi

Cheng

2023

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The improvement of agricultural production efficiency is of great significance to eliminate rural poverty and ensure food security.Taking conservation tillage technology as an example, this paper analyzes the background and characteristics of multi-agent collaborative participation in agricultural machinery service. It analyzes the direct impact of agricultural machinery services provided by multi-service agents on farmers' agricultural production efficiency and the intermediary effect transmitted through high-quality conservation tillage operation by using intermediary effect model, based on survey data of four locations in the black soil region of China in 2021. The results show that: (1) The Agricultural Machinery Service with Multi-agent Collaborative Participation is characterized by its comprehensive service content, full service content, and high service availability, and the cooperative mode primarily demonstrates technical collaboration, service collaboration, and benefit collaboration; (2) The agricultural machinery service with multi-agent collaborative participation has a direct positive effect on agricultural production efficiency; (3) The agricultural machinery service with multi-agent collaborative participation has a significant impact on the high-quality operation of conservation tillage. The better the collaborative effect of multi-agent collaborative participation of agricultural machinery service, the higher the quality of farmers' conservation tillage operation; (4) High-quality conservation tillage operation can effectively improve agricultural production efficiency and play an intermediary effect in the influence of service of agricultural machinery with the cooperation of multiple service subjects on agricultural production efficiency. Under the background of the shortage of agricultural labor force and the increasingly serious pressure of aging in China, we should upgrade the service of agricultural machinery based on single transactional service to multi-agent cooperation, improve the development quality of multi-agent service consortium of agricultural machinery, and provide corresponding policy support measures such as compensation, financial credit and management evaluation, so as to promote the improvement of agricultural production efficiency and ensure national food security.

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Section: Theoretical Framework and Hypothesesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Multi-agent Collaborative Participation of Agricultural Machinery Service, High Quality Operation and Agricultural Production Efficiency: A Case Study of Conservation Tillage Technology

Zhang

Shi

Cheng

2023

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“…Input constraints on the quantity and quality of agricultural labor may lead to extensive farming operations and lagging technology adoption, and ultimately reduce cultivated land productivity. AMS, as an available source of mechanization for smallholders, can reduce labor drudgery and alleviate agricultural labor shortages at a relatively lower cost than hired labor and/or purchased machinery (Tang et al, 2018;Daum and Birner, 2020;Qiao, 2020). As such, the adoption of AMS can reduce or compensate for the loss of cultivated land productivity due to agricultural labor shortages.…”

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“…A trend towards a gradual shortage of agricultural labor has emerged. Mechanization is an effective labor-saving method, although smallholders have only a limited capacity to acquire and apply machinery as it carries a heavy financial burden and their farms are both small in scale and fragmented (Benin 2015;Adekunle et al, 2016;Qiao 2020;Wang et al, 2020;Mahasuweerachai and Suksawat 2022). In this context, increasing the availability of agricultural machinery may contribute to the viability of smallholder farming and therefore boost cultivated land productivity (Rigg et al, 2016;Takeshima, 2017;Zhang et al, 2017).…”

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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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“…On the one hand, rational small-scale farmers allocate their family's flexible management structure to a limited labour force to maximize benefits. Most of the family labour force tends to increase family income by comparing non-agricultural employment activities, such as migrant workers, with higher income, which reduces the input of the agricultural production labour force and facilitates family income due to the rigid allocation of the labour force [54]. Savary et al [55] evaluated the central Asian regions and found that farmers increase the input of alternative elements to cope with insufficient labour resources in agricultural production.…”

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Household Labour Migration and Farmers’ Access to Productive Agricultural Services: A Case Study from Chinese Provinces

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Household labour migration experiences may have a staggering impact within developing countries, especially in dynamic societies like China, where labour migration is obvious. The present study’s objective is to investigate whether household labour migration contributes to the probability of farmers’ access to productive agricultural services. The study’s empirical setup is comprised of household survey data of 541 farmers in Shaanxi, Henan, and Sichuan provinces. The study proposes a counterfactual model to evaluate the average processing effect of an urban migrant with the help of the endogenous transformation of the Probit model. The results show that labour migration for work directly affects farmers’ access to productive agricultural services and indirectly affects farmers’ access to productive agricultural services through three channels: labour input, land transfers, and planting structure adjustments. The study further confirms that labour migration for work has a significant heterogeneity in the probability of obtaining productive agricultural services for farmers with or without non-agricultural income. Simultaneously, the labour migration area for work has significant heterogeneity in the probability of farmer households’ access to productive agricultural services. The government should extend support towards productive agriculture services. Agricultural demonstration services and on-hand training of migrant labour should be highlighted.

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The Impact of Agricultural Service on Grain Production in China

Cited by 11 publications

References 35 publications

Multi-agent Collaborative Participation of Agricultural Machinery Service, High Quality Operation and Agricultural Production Efficiency: A Case Study of Conservation Tillage Technology

Multi-agent Collaborative Participation of Agricultural Machinery Service, High Quality Operation and Agricultural Production Efficiency: A Case Study of Conservation Tillage Technology

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

Household Labour Migration and Farmers’ Access to Productive Agricultural Services: A Case Study from Chinese Provinces

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