Spatial Distribution and Convergence of Agricultural Green Total Factor Productivity in China
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Agricultural Green Total Factor Productivity
- The current benchmark:
- The global benchmark:
2.2. Convergence Test Method Based on Time Trend
- (1)
- (2)
- Conditional convergence. According to the New Theory of Economic Growth, the economic development status of distinctive districts would be specific in unique periods or in the identical period [38]. If these underlying conditions were controlled, there would be different convergence conclusions. Considering the convergence of the external environment, the conditional convergence usually tested regions [39]. If conditional convergence existed, it indicated that the AGTFP steady-state level of each region was related to the resource endowment conditions and that achieving a consistent steady-state level between regions was difficult. There were two methods to test conditional convergence: one was to fix effects by presetting individuals and time, the other was to appropriately add a control variable to the right side of the absolute convergence model. The second method held that inter-regional conditional convergence existed if the regression coefficient was still negative and statistically significant after adding the control variable, so the study used the second approach. To avoid missing important control variables, the level of economic development, agricultural industry structure adjustment, agricultural science and technology input, agricultural infrastructure, rural human capital, industrialization degree, and agricultural energy consumption were selected as control variables in line with the relevant literature [24,40]. Among them, the level of economic development was measured by the per capita gross output [41]. The restructuring of the agricultural industry was calculated by the proportion of the total output of the planting industry in the total agricultural output [42]. Agricultural science and technology input was measured by the stock of agricultural science and technology capital, which needed to be estimated based on the “perpetual inventory method” [43]. The length of highways divided by the administrative area of the province equals agricultural infrastructure [44]. Rural human capital was based on Hall and Jones by using the conversion method of education years, and the degree of industrialization was measured by the total value of non-agricultural output divided by Gross Domestic Product (GDP) [45]. Agricultural energy consumption was characterized by agricultural GDP energy consumption with 100 million yuan. The conditional β convergence test model of AGTFP was as follows.
2.3. Dynamic Spatial Convergence Model
2.4. Data Sources
3. Results
3.1. Spatial Analysis of Agricultural Green Total Factor Productivity
3.2. Convergence Analysis of GTFP of Agriculture
3.2.1. Absolute Convergence
3.2.2. Absolute Convergence
3.2.3. Conditional Convergence
3.2.4. Dynamic Spatial Convergence
4. Discussion
5. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
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Metric Category | Variable Name | Metric Name | Evaluation Indicators | Unit |
---|---|---|---|---|
Input indicators | Labor input | Labor | Number of employees in agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and fishery | 10,000 people |
Land input | Land | Area sown to crops and area of aquaculture | thousand hectares | |
Capital investment input | Machine | Total power of agricultural machinery | 10,000 kilowatts | |
Fertilizer | The amount of agricultural chemical fertilizer and the amount of organic fertilizer applied | 10 kilo-tons | ||
Pesticide | Amount of pesticide use | 10 kilo-tons | ||
Agricultural film | Agricultural film use | Ton | ||
Energy input | Diesel oil | Agricultural diesel usage | 10 kilo-tons | |
Electricity | Electricity consumption in agriculture | kWh | ||
Water resources input | Water | Agricultural water consumption | 100 million cubic meters | |
Output indicators | Desirable output | AgiGDP | The total output value of agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and fishery | 100 million yuan |
Undesirable outputs | AgiNPSP | Emissions of agricultural non-point source pollution | 10,000 cubic meters | |
AgiE | Agricultural carbon emissions | 10 kilo-tons |
Coefficient | Sub-Regions | Divided into Time Periods | ||||||
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Nationwide | Eastern | Western | Central | 2002–2005 | 2006–2010 | 2011–2015 | 2016–2019 | |
−0.025 *** (0.005) | −0.024 *** (0.007) | −0.027 *** (0.005) | −0.026 *** (0.009) | −0.118 *** (0.054) | −0.040 *** (0.017) | −0.085 *** (0.031) | −0.037 *** (0.038) | |
−0.003 (0.001) | −0.003 (0.002) | −0.002 ** (0.001) | −0.001 (0.002) | −0.008 (0.011) | −0.001 ** (0.002) | −0.002 (0.001) | 0.011 *** (0.002) | |
R2 | 0.964 | 0.94 | 0.963 | 0.992 | 0.79 | 0.806 | 0.915 | 0.802 |
0.038 | 0.036 | 0.045 | 0.042 | 0.178 | 0.045 | 0.111 | 0.044 |
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Zhu, L.; Shi, R.; Mi, L.; Liu, P.; Wang, G. Spatial Distribution and Convergence of Agricultural Green Total Factor Productivity in China. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19, 8786. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19148786
Zhu L, Shi R, Mi L, Liu P, Wang G. Spatial Distribution and Convergence of Agricultural Green Total Factor Productivity in China. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2022; 19(14):8786. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19148786
Chicago/Turabian StyleZhu, Liping, Rui Shi, Lincheng Mi, Pu Liu, and Guofeng Wang. 2022. "Spatial Distribution and Convergence of Agricultural Green Total Factor Productivity in China" International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 19, no. 14: 8786. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19148786