Heterogenous Urbanization and Agricultural Green Development Efficiency: Evidence from China

Pengfei Ge, Tan Liu (), Xiaoxu Wu and Xiulu Huang
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Pengfei Ge: School of Economics and Management, Northwest University, Xi’an 710127, China
Tan Liu: School of Economics and Management, Northwest University, Xi’an 710127, China
Xiaoxu Wu: School of Economics and Management, Northwest University, Xi’an 710127, China
Xiulu Huang: School of Public Administration, Xi’an University of Architecture and Technology, Xi’an 710055, China

Sustainability, 2023, vol. 15, issue 7, 1-22

Abstract: Realizing green development in agriculture is fundamental to sustained economic development. As a measure to facilitate the transfer of rural population, urbanization is considered to be strategic in promoting agricultural green development. This paper employs a SBM-DDF–Luenberger method to measure agricultural green total factor productivity (AGTFP) and the agricultural labor surplus in China, and empirically tests the heterogeneous effects of household registration urbanization, permanent residence urbanization, and employment urbanization on the efficiency of agricultural green development. The results reveal that: (1) the average annual growth rate of China’s AGFTP is 4.4374%, which is achieved mainly through improvements in green scale efficiency. (2) The agricultural sector in China is suffering a large surplus of labor force, with an estimation of 20.64 million in 2020. (3) Both household registration urbanization and permanent residence urbanization have a significant promoting effect on agricultural green development efficiency, though the former promotes less. (4) Employment urbanization improves agricultural green development efficiency by providing employment guidance for migrant workers, and employment urbanization of the tertiary industry has a more pronounced improvement effect. The findings suggest that governments remove restrictions on the household registration system and actively guide surplus agricultural laborers to engage in urban service industries to provide an impetus for promoting green agricultural development.

Keywords: heterogenous urbanization; agricultural green development efficiency; labor transfer; employment urbanization (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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