The Agricultural Green Production following the Technological Progress: Evidence from China

Shuxing Xiao, Zuxin He, Weikun Zhang () and Xiaoming Qin
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Shuxing Xiao: School of Public Administration and Law, Hunan Agricultural University, Changsha 410128, China
Zuxin He: School of Economics, Guangdong University of Finance & Economics, Guangzhou 510320, China
Weikun Zhang: School of Social and Public Administration, Lingnan Normal University, Zhanjiang 524088, China
Xiaoming Qin: Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Aquatic Products Processing and Safety, Guangdong Ocean University, Zhanjiang 524088, China

IJERPH, 2022, vol. 19, issue 16, 1-16

Abstract: This study performs the spatial Durbin model (SDM) and threshold model to analyze the efficiency of agricultural green production following technological progress from 1998 through 2019. The SDM supports a nonlinear contribution of technological progress spillover to agricultural green total factor productivity (GTFP), exacerbated by upgrading agricultural structure. Moreover, the threshold model confirms that technological progress has a single threshold effect on agricultural GTFP with the rationalization of the agrarian system as a threshold variable; meanwhile, the contribution of technological progress to agricultural GTFP is less than that of agricultural total factor productivity. Out of the expanded application of dissipative structure theory in agricultural GTFP systems innovatively, this study reveals the urgency to strengthen the innovation of independent technology, lower the threshold for introducing technology, and optimize the agrarian structure in the long-term sustainable agriculture for the economies that are undergoing a similar development stage as China.

Keywords: agricultural green production; technological progress; green total factor productivity; spillover effect; threshold effect (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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