Maintenance Skill Training Gives Agricultural Socialized Service Providers More Advantages

Lewei Chen, Zongyi Zhang (), Hongbo Li and Xinpu Zhang
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Lewei Chen: School of Management, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang 212013, China
Zongyi Zhang: China Institute for Agricultural Equipment Industry Development, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang 212013, China
Hongbo Li: School of Management, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang 212013, China
Xinpu Zhang: School of Management, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang 212013, China

Agriculture, 2023, vol. 13, issue 1, 1-17

Abstract: Agricultural machinery maintenance skill training is conducive to improving the fault diagnosis and maintenance levels of agricultural machinery for agricultural socialized service providers and plays an important role in providing stable and reliable agricultural machinery operation services. This paper aims to study whether maintenance skill training gives agricultural socialized service providers more advantages than untrained providers, exploring the relationship between maintenance skill training and agricultural machinery service area. Based on a survey of 4905 farmers from 10 provinces in China, an empirical analysis was carried out using a fixed effect model and a propensity score matching method. The results showed the following: First, maintenance skill training had a significant positive impact on agricultural machinery operation service area, including 10.426 ha of machinery tilling service area and 8.524 ha of machinery harvesting service area. Second, since maintenance skill training gave agricultural socialized service providers more advantages in agricultural machinery operation services and enabled them to obtain more orders, it had an indirect positive impact on the quantity of demand for large- and middle-sized agricultural machinery.

Keywords: maintenance skill training; agricultural machinery; agricultural socialized services; China (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q1 Q10 Q11 Q12 Q13 Q14 Q15 Q16 Q17 Q18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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