Does the Integrated Development of Agriculture and Tourism Promote Farmers’ Income Growth? Evidence from Southwestern China

Yuxi Luo, Tianren Xiong, Defeng Meng, Anrong Gao () and Yan Chen ()
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Yuxi Luo: School of Economics and Management, Guangxi Normal University, Guilin 541006, China
Tianren Xiong: School of Economics and Management, Guangxi Normal University, Guilin 541006, China
Defeng Meng: School of Economics and Management, Guangxi Normal University, Guilin 541006, China
Anrong Gao: School of Economics and Management, Guangxi Normal University, Guilin 541006, China
Yan Chen: School of Business, Guilin Tourism University, Guilin 541006, China

Agriculture, 2023, vol. 13, issue 9, 1-25

Abstract: The integrated development of agriculture and tourism is an effective driving force to boost farmers’ income. We utilize a quasi-natural experiment design to test how such integrated development promotes the comprehensive rural revitalization. By adopting a panel dataset of 72 counties within Guangxi province from 2005 to 2020 and a PSM-DID method, we attempt to explore the effect of the integrated development of agriculture and tourism on farmers’ income growth. The empirical results support our hypothesis that the integrated development of agriculture and tourism can effectively promote farmers’ income growth and its regional heterogeneity with respect to tourism resource endowment and economic development level. We further discuss the transmission mechanism of the integrated development of agriculture and tourism and reveal that the agricultural technology level and agricultural production efficiency have mediating effects on improving farmers’ income growth. However, a masking effect exists between the integrated development of agriculture and tourism and the level of non-agricultural employment. The possible reason is that industrial and commercial capital investment has crowded out the welfare originally belonging to the wage income and only allowed farmers to obtain the one-time land rent income.

Keywords: integrated development; farmers’ income growth; PSM-DID; masking effect (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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