Review and prospect of comprehensive straw utilization and government policy in China

Abstract

The comprehensive use and efficient management of straw are significant for agriculture's green and low-carbon transformation. This paper uses literature research and comparative analysis to systematically review the literature on comprehensive straw utilization and governance policy research in China over the past five years. The current literature has explored two major directions: regional and industrial policies and the main actors involved in the comprehensive use of straw. The research is complementary and fruitful concerning both micro and macro perspectives; however, the extant literature suffers from a lack of attention to straw intermediaries and enterprises and a lack of research across time. Therefore, this paper provides an outlook for future research. In the future, scholars should pay more attention to straw intermediaries and enterprises, conduct continuous observations of multiple regions over time to obtain panel data, and further test the heterogeneity of factors to obtain more scientific and valid results.