Agricultural mechanization and the performance of the local Chinese economy

IF 6.8 1区经济学 Q1 AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS & POLICY

Food Policy Pub Date : 2024-05-01 DOI:10.1016/j.foodpol.2024.102648

Baoling Zou , Yudan Chen , Ashok K. Mishra , Stefan Hirsch

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Abstract

In this study, we analyze the impact of agricultural mechanization on the local Chinese economy from 2010 to 2020. Findings based on panel data and instrumental variable methods show that agricultural mechanization led to a significant decline in the local gross domestic product. In particular, agricultural mechanization changes the sector’s production and lowers its output value. Agricultural mechanization has reduced the need for labor to such an extent that young Chinese tend to seek jobs in the non-farming sector, leading to a fall in the local agricultural labor supply and household consumption, adversely affecting the development of local industries and service sectors. Mechanization has also led to cash crops being increasingly replaced by grain crops, reducing the total agricultural output. Finally, this paper presents some policy suggestions for agricultural production and rural development.

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农业机械化与中国地方经济的表现

本研究分析了 2010 年至 2020 年农业机械化对中国地方经济的影响。基于面板数据和工具变量方法的研究结果表明，农业机械化导致当地国内生产总值大幅下降。特别是，农业机械化改变了该部门的生产，降低了其产值。农业机械化减少了对劳动力的需求，以至于中国年轻人倾向于在非农业部门寻找工作，导致当地农业劳动力供给和家庭消费下降，对当地工业和服务业的发展造成不利影响。机械化也导致经济作物越来越多地被粮食作物取代，从而降低了农业总产量。最后，本文就农业生产和农村发展提出了一些政策建议。

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Food Policy 管理科学-农业经济与政策

CiteScore

11.40

自引率

4.60%

发文量

128

审稿时长

62 days

期刊介绍： Food Policy is a multidisciplinary journal publishing original research and novel evidence on issues in the formulation, implementation, and evaluation of policies for the food sector in developing, transition, and advanced economies. Our main focus is on the economic and social aspect of food policy, and we prioritize empirical studies informing international food policy debates. Provided that articles make a clear and explicit contribution to food policy debates of international interest, we consider papers from any of the social sciences. Papers from other disciplines (e.g., law) will be considered only if they provide a key policy contribution, and are written in a style which is accessible to a social science readership.