How to Break the Bottleneck of Potato Production Sustainable Growth—A Survey from Potato Main Producing Areas in China

Runqi Lun, Qiyou Luo (), Mingjie Gao, Guojing Li () and Tengda Wei
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Runqi Lun: Institute of Agricultural Resources and Regional Planning, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, China
Qiyou Luo: Institute of Agricultural Resources and Regional Planning, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, China
Mingjie Gao: Institute of Agricultural Resources and Regional Planning, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, China
Guojing Li: Institute of Agricultural Resources and Regional Planning, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, China
Tengda Wei: College of Economics and Management, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100083, China

Sustainability, 2023, vol. 15, issue 16, 1-16

Abstract: China is the world’s largest potato producer, and the potato’s role in ensuring food security and rural development is irreplaceable. Therefore, how to achieve sustainable growth in potato production has attracted widespread attention from academia. However, few existing studies have analyzed how to achieve sustainable growth in main potato-producing areas based on farmers’ micro perspectives in terms of both technical efficiency and output elasticity of input factor. This paper investigates the output elasticities of input factors, technical efficiency, and its influencing factors among 398 potato farmers from China’s main potato-producing regions in 2021 to fill this knowledge gap. The stochastic frontier production is applied to calculate the technical efficiency and elasticities of input factors in main potato-producing areas. The Tobit model is utilized to analyze influencing factors of technical efficiency. Our findings indicate that the technical efficiency of the main potato production regions is 0.67, with an efficiency loss of 0.33. And, the output elasticity of land input and labor input is negative, and the output elasticity of capital input is positive. Moreover, the factors that affect the technical efficiency in main potato-producing areas include age, whether to be a village leader, income from other crops, labor input, potato price, and disaster impact. Our findings suggest that the agricultural authorities should strengthen the cultivation of potato producers, control the scale of potato production, and optimize the allocation of input factors.

Keywords: potato production; production growth; technical efficiency; stochastic frontier production function; output elasticity of input factor; influencing factors (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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