Agricultural Production Efficiency and Ecological Transformation Efficiency in the Yangtze River Economic Belt

Gui Jin, Han Yu, Dawei He and Baishu Guo ()
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Gui Jin: School of Economics and Management, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430078, China
Han Yu: School of Management, RMIT University, Melbourne, VIC 3083, Australia
Dawei He: Faculty of Resources and Environmental Science, Hubei University, Wuhan 430062, China
Baishu Guo: School of Arts and Communication, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, China

Land, 2024, vol. 13, issue 1, 1-14

Abstract: Measuring the agricultural production efficiency (APE) and the ecological transformation efficiency (ETE) is key to agricultural modernization and regional ecological civilization construction. Based on the agricultural input–output dataset of the Yangtze River Economic Belt (YREB) from 2000 to 2015, we use the panel stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) to measure the APE and ETE to explore the spatiotemporal patterns of regional APE and ETE from the geographical perspective. We rely on the quantitative association characteristics to explore the key threshold of ecological economic development in agriculture. The results show that: (1) In the study period, the APE increased from 0.2993 to 0.5495, indicating that the cumulative growth of the whole period was 83.60%, and the high-value units gradually changed from point distribution to spatial distribution; (2) Although the ETE of the YREB increased from 2000 to 2015, the proportion of the first-class species was still only 7.26% in 2015, and the inverted U-shaped polarization distribution characteristics of the high-efficiency cities and the band-like structure of global decision-making units were formed at the same time; (3) The improvement of ETE has obvious segment distribution and threshold crossing characteristics, and the APE is equal to 0.661, which is the threshold for high-speed growth and low-speed growth of ETE. The research framework, spatiotemporal rules and key thresholds have reference value for agricultural modernization and ecological civilization construction.

Keywords: agricultural production efficiency; ecological transformation efficiency; SFA; spatiotemporal pattern; Yangtze River Economic Belt (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q15 Q2 Q24 Q28 Q5 R14 R52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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