A Study on the Impact of Population Aging on the Agricultural Socialized Services

Chongmei Zhang, Jincheng Zhang, Zhuoying Fu and Maoming Tian ()
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Chongmei Zhang: School of Business Administration, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, Wuhan 430073, China
Jincheng Zhang: School of Business Administration, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, Wuhan 430073, China
Zhuoying Fu: School of Management, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu 611130, China
Maoming Tian: School of Business Administration, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, Wuhan 430073, China

Agriculture, 2025, vol. 15, issue 6, 1-18

Abstract: Actively coping with the aging of the rural population is an inevitable requirement for the implementation of high-quality development of modern agriculture and the comprehensive promotion of rural revitalization. Agricultural socialized services can effectively integrate the two key elements of technology and people in agricultural production and management. Based on research data on the livelihoods and economic behavior of 1023 farming households in 2021, this paper explores the impact of an aging population on the implementation of socialized agricultural services by rural households. The results of the study show that population aging has a significant positive influence on the degree of agricultural socialized services. The aging of the population has a significant positive influence on unified irrigation services, mechanized farming services, straw collection services, and origin processing services, which are labor-replacing and highly mechanized agricultural science and technology socialized services. The results of the heterogeneity analysis show that both young and middle-aged rural households and older rural households have a clear demand for agricultural socialized services. Based on this, we propose policy recommendations in two aspects: guiding land transfer in the context of rural aging and establishing a variety of agricultural technology socialized service types.

Keywords: population aging; induced technological change; Poisson distribution; agricultural socialization services (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: 2025
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