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  • Agro-pastoral economy
    SHEN Shumin, YANG Yunli, CAO Xia
    Modern Agriculture. 2025, 50(2): 10-18.
    The digital transformation of enterprises is of great significance to the high-quality development of the whole industry chain of animal husbandry. Based on the panel data of A-share listed animal husbandry and dairy enterprises from 2012 to 2022, the realization mechanism enabling the growth of animal husbandry enterprises by digital economy was analyzed by using the common panel regression model and the two-step mediation regression model. The results indicated that:digital transformation could significantly promote the growth of animal husbandry enterprises;heterogeneity analysis showed that this effect was more significant in state-owned enterprises than in non-state-owned enterprises, and more significant in central and western regions than in eastern regions;the mechanism test found that the growth of enterprises was mainly promoted by reducing internal control costs and improving production efficiency. Therefore, it is recommended to implement strategies according to classification: non-state-owned enterprises should increase technological investment to enhance digital security and ecological governance capabilities; state-owned enterprises should use digital tools to optimize management and break through the traditional system constraints; enterprises in central and western regions should accelerate the construction of digital infrastructure with policy support; enterprises in eastern region should deepen the application of data platforms and promote business model innovation.
  • Agro-pastoral economy
    SUN Peilei, SHANG Liting, WANG Pei
    Modern Agriculture. 2025, 50(2): 56-68.
    In the new stage of promoting Chinese modernization, the impact of rural population aging on agricultural and rural modernization has become an important issue. Based on the panel data of 30 provinces in China (excluding Tibet Autonomous Region, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan) from 2007 to 2022, this paper constructed an evaluation index system for agricultural and rural modernization from three dimensions: agricultural modernization, rural modernization and farmer modernization, and used the entropy method to measure the development level of agricultural and rural modernization, and empirically examined the impact and internal mechanism of rural population aging on agricultural and rural modernization. The results showed that: rural population aging had a significant positive effect on agricultural and rural modernization, and the conclusion was still valid after a series of robustness tests;rural population aging indirectly promoted agricultural and rural modernization through the transfer of farmland. Additionally, from the three dimensions of agricultural and rural modernization, there was regional heterogeneity in the impact of rural population aging, the rural population aging had the strongest impact on agricultural and rural modernization in major grain-producing regions, whereas its impact was less significant in the production-marketing balance regions and the main marketing regions. Further research found that, the promoting effect of rural population aging on agricultural and rural modernization was further strengthened with the advancement of agricultural and rural modernization level, but it showed a downward trend with the improvement of farmer modernization level. In the future, it is necessary to enhance farmer modernization level to address aging-related challenges; this can be achieved by guiding the orderly farmland transfer, integrating land resources and promoting appropriate agricultural scale operation; based on regional resource endowments, measures should be tailored to local conditions to precisely facilitate the steady development of agricultural and rural modernization.
  • Special article
    HOU Zhihui, HAN Chang, ZHANG Yujia, XING Zhicang, DONG Changhong
    Modern Agriculture. 2025, 50(2): 1-9.
    As an important ecological security barrier in Northern China, the realization of ecological products value in Inner Mongolia is a core issue for promoting ecological civilization construction and high-quality development. Based on national policy guidance and combined with the characteristics of ecological systems such as grasslands and forests in Inner Mongolia, this paper analyzed the supply status of its material products (grain, livestock, energy), regulatory services (soil and water conservation, air purification), and cultural services (ecological tourism), by establishing an evaluation system including ecological resource support capacity, ecological service value realization capacity, and ecological protection and restoration capacity evaluation system, the entropy weight method was used to determine the weight of indicators, and the multi-index comprehensive evaluation method to assess its capacity level, and the realization path was discussed based on the evaluation results. The study found that:from 2013 to 2023, the comprehensive index of sustainable realization capacity of ecological products value in Inner Mongolia increased from 30.38 to 60.55,at the same time, the ecological resource support capacity index showed a fluctuating downward trend, the ecological products service value realization capacity index fluctuated upward, but the overall score was still low, and the ecological protection and restoration capacity fluctuated greatly due to factors such as geological disasters. Accordingly, it was proposed to improve the top-level system design,establish a systematic ecological products value accounting and property rights trading system; construct an ecological resource protection technology innovation system,optimize the ecological products value transformation path; innovate the ecological restoration technology system break the bottleneck of ecological governance; and establish a long-term incentive mechanism for ecological protection and restoration to promote the sustainable transformation of ecological products value, transforming the ecological advantages of Inner Mongolia into economic advantages through institutional innovation and industrial upgrading, and providing a regional demonstration for the realization of ecological products value in China, especially in the northern ecological barrier area.
  • Agro-pastoral economy
    ZHANG Xuguang, ZHANG Nan
    Modern Agriculture. 2025, 50(2): 29-36.
    The synergistic advancement of agricultural insurance and cultivated land quality protection serves as both a critical pathway for implementing the strategy of storing grain in the land and technology, and an important lever for achieving the green transformation of agriculture. Based on survey data from 2 052 farmers across 10 provinces (autonomous regions,city) in China, this study employed the Oprobit model, propensity score matching method(PSM), and mediation effect model to empirically examine the impact of agricultural insurance on farmers’ conservation tillage practices and its underlying mechanisms.The research found that: participation in agricultural insurance incentivized farmers to adopt conservation tillage practices, particularly promoting farmers’ higher-level conservation tillage practices; agricultural insurance enhanced farmers’ inclination toward conservation tillage through the mechanism of increasing agricultural income; the impact of agricultural insurance on farmers’ conservation tillage practices exhibited heterogeneity, with a more significant effect on farmers with higher levels of land concentration and pure agricultural operations. Accordingly, this study recommended expanding the coverage of agricultural insurance, strengthening universal risk protection, innovating agricultural products price and income insurance to establish a long-term income security mechanism, and constructing a differentiated financial subsidy system to enhance the incentive precision of agricultural insurance, so as to achieve a positive interaction between agricultural insurance and farmers’ conservation tillage practices.
  • Agro-pastoral economy
    HU Tingting, MAI Qiangsheng, XU Ran
    Modern Agriculture. 2025, 50(2): 79-89.
    The high-quality development of agriculture is the key to promoting comprehensive rural revitalization, the agglomeration of agricultural productivity exerts both direct and indirect influences on the high-quality development of agriculture. This paper was aimed to explore the relationship between agglomeration of agricultural productivity, high-quality development of agricultural and industrial structure based on the panel data of 30 provinces, regions and municipalities in China(except Xizang Autonomous Region, HongKong,Macau,and Taiwan) from 2009 to 2020, providing new insights for China’s agricultural development. The empirical results showed that: the agglomeration of agricultural productivity promotes the high-quality development of agriculture. The agglomeration of agricultural productivity could promote the rationalization of industrial structure and accelerate the high-quality development of agriculture; with the advanced industrial structure as the threshold variable, the agglomeration of agricultural productivity had a single threshold effect on the high-quality development of agriculture. Therefore, upholding the concept of high-quality development in agriculture, actively promoting the agglomeration of agricultural productivity development, providing a strong impetus for high-quality agricultural development; at the same time, optimizing the industrial structure to elevate agricultural high-quality development to a higher level.
  • Agro-pastoral economy
    LIU Xuting, LI Yubei, DENG Shengju
    Modern Agriculture. 2025, 50(2): 19-28.
    New quality productive forces are an important force in promoting high-quality economic and social development, as well as a key breakthrough in promoting high-quality agricultural development. Based on the theoretical analysis of how new quality productive forces drived and affected high-quality agricultural development, the article calculated the levels of new quality productive forces and high-quality agricultural development in Gansu Province by using panel data of Gansu Province from 2010 to 2023, and further analyzed heterogeneous effect, threshold effect and spatial spillover effect. The results showed that: new quality productive forces was an important driving force for promoting high-quality agricultural development in Gansu Province; the impact of new quality productive forces on promoting agricultural development exhibited regional heterogeneity, with the strongest promoting effect on the Hexi Corridor Economic Zone followed by the Lanzhou-Baiyin Economic Zone, and no significant effect on the Longdongnan Economic Zone; further research found that non-linear characteristics and spatial spillover effects existed in the promotion of high-quality agricultural development in Gansu Province by new quality productive forces. Based on the above research conclusions, countermeasures and suggestions were proposed to drive the development of new quality productive forces through technological innovation, formulating differentiated agricultural industry development strategies, promoting the development of agricultural industry clusters, and establishing a collaborative mechanism for regional agricultural industry development.
  • Ecological and environmental protection
    SUN Xiaowen, ZHANG Rui, TANG Hong
    Modern Agriculture. 2025, 50(2): 103-112.
    With the continuous improvement of the national environmental governance system, grassroots e-commerce platforms have provided strong support for the green development of agricultural products. At present, agricultural product e-commerce enterprises face challenges related to product packaging waste disposal and disposable plastic packaging pollution. From the perspective of consumer response, this study explored the process of green logistics on environmental performance, divided green logistics into four dimensions: green transportation, green packaging, green circulation and processing, and green logistics information management, and used AMOS structural equation model to empirically test the mechanism of green logistics on environmental performance. The results showed that: the impact of green logistics on environmental performance of agricultural product e-commerce enterprises was significant, and consumer response played a partial mediating role between green logistics and environmental performance, 4 paths were formed in total, the mediating effect of 4 paths in the total effect accounting for 28.81%, 29.48%, 39.77% and 28.44%, respectively. on the research results, some suggestions were put forward: strengthen the research and development of therefore enhancing green packaging research, continue to encourage green consumption, establish and improve the legal and policy system of green consumption, and implement other measures to achieve the sustainable development goal of “reducing costs and increasing efficiency” of green logistics of agricultural products.
  • Agro-pastoral economy
    YU Liwei
    Modern Agriculture. 2025, 50(2): 37-45.
    Food security is a matter of national livelihood, and an important element of national security. As the main body of grain cultivation, it is of great significance to enhance farmers’ enthusiasm for growing grain for ensuring national food security. Based on the survey data of 1 263 farmers in Shaanxi Province and Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, this article utilized the Logit-ISM model to explore the influencing factors of farmers’ enthusiasm for growing grain and their internal correlations and hierarchical structure. The results showed that: the factors influencing farmers’ enthusiasm for growing grain could be categorized into deep, middle and surface factors. Whether the farmland rights were confirmed, the years of education, and whether farmers had received agricultural training were the deep factors, which influenced the middle indirect factors such as whether to transfer in the farmland or not, whether to transfer out the farmland or not, the sensitivity of the information, and whether to participa in agricultural insurance or not, and acted on the surface factors including the opportunity cost perception of farming, the livelihood strategy, and the ability to get loan from bank, influencing the famers’ enthusiasm for growing grain. Therefore, it is recommended to further consolidate the effects of land ownership, increasing the training intensity for farmers, improving the comparative income of grain cultivation, and increasing the financial support for farmers to grow grain.
  • Agro-pastoral economy
    GAO Rui
    Modern Agriculture. 2025, 50(2): 69-78.
    Under the “Belt and Road” high-quality development initiative, agricultural trade faces new opportunities and challenges. Based on the panel data of China and 55 “Belt and Road” partner countries from 2013 to 2021, this paper constructed a stochastic frontier gravity model to study the influencing factors of export trade efficiency of agricultural products .The results showed that: the partner countries’per capita GDP, population size, trade freedom, China’s per capita GDP and shared linguistic and common borders with China all positively influenced China’s agricultural exports; China’s population size, the distance between capitals, agricultural value-added share in partner countries’ GDP, tariff level and government integrity had negative effects on China’s agricultural exports; the trade efficiency between China and high-income countries was relatively high, except for a decline in 2020, China’s annual trade efficiency remained stable at a moderately low level. Therefore, it is recommended to focus on high-potential markets and optimize regional agricultural product distribution; strengthen geographical indication development to promote trade liberalization and market differentiation; optimize trade strategies to enhance agricultural cooperation level and adaptive capacity.
  • Agro-pastoral economy
    DONG Mengting, HOU Guoqing, YU Xuhong
    Modern Agriculture. 2025, 50(2): 90-102.
    Crop-livestock integration is a fundamental approach to developing ecological circular agriculture and achieve high-quality agricultural development. Farmers are the main operators and stakeholders of crop-livestock integration, clarifying the core driving force to encourage farmers adopt crop-livestock integration has great significance for formulating effective measures to promote crop-livestock integration. Therefore, this paper selected the dairy cattle family ranch as the research object,based on the measurement of the adoption degree of crop-livestock integration, according to the micro survey data, used the endogenous switching regression (ESR) model to empirically analyze the effects and mechanisms of the adoption degree of crop-livestock integration from the perspectives of market driving and policy constraints. The results showed that: based on the factual hypothesis, market-driven and policy constraints had significantly improved the farmers’ adoption degree of crop-livestock integration, and market-driven had a greater positive impact on the farmers’ adoption degree of crop-livestock integration, which was the core driving force to improve the farmers’ adoption degree of crop-livestock integration,and after the CMP model and winsorization, the conclusions were still valid. Market-driven and policy constraints had aggravated the group differentiation of the farmers’ adoption degree of the crop-livestock integration, and its influence had the characteristics of intergenerational heterogeneity; compared with the young and middle-aged people,market-driven and policy constraints had more obvious promotion effect on the adoption degree of the crop-livestock integration among the middle-aged and elderly farmers. The mechanism test showed that,market-driven and policy constraints could improve crop-livestock integration by influencing farmers’ value cognition, and compared with policy constraints, market-driven had a greater impact on farmers’ value cognition of crop-livestock integration. Therefore, market-driven is the primary factor to stimulate and improve the farmers’ adoption degree of crop-livestock integration. In the promotion of crop-livestock integration, effective market should be combined with proactive government,and improve farmers’ value cognition of the crop-livestock integration,differentiated measures should be taken according to the different population characteristics to promote the openness,transparency of market information, the scientific and rational of agricultural policies.
  • Rural revitalization
    SONG Dejun, DING Xin
    Modern Agriculture. 2024, 49(5): 26-37.
    Based on the panel data of 30 provincial administrative regions (except Xizang Autonomous Region, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan) in China from 2014 to 2022,this paper constructed an evaluation index system of new quality productivity and agricultural high-quality development,used entropy method to obtain the level of new quality productivity and high-quality agricultural development,and calculated the coupling coordination degree of new quality productivity and high-quality agricultural development. Kernel density estimation, Moran index and Thiel index were further used to analyze the spatio-temporal evolution and regional differences of the coupling coordination level between new quality productivity and high-quality agricultural development, the obstacle degree model was used to diagnose and analyze the obstacle factors of the two subsystems. The results showed that the level of new quality productivity was stable and improved,with a pattern of high in the east and low in the west; the coupling and coordination level of new quality productivity and high-quality agricultural development in eastern,central and western regions showed a step distribution from high to low and the spatial correlation was significant. The differences of the coupling coordination degree of the four regions mainly came from the intra-regional differences,and the differences showed a deepening trend. Based on those,this paper put forward some suggestions on improving new quality productivity according to local conditions,giving full play to the radiation role of developed areas and strengthening basic agricultural research,so as to provide reference for promoting the coupling development of new quality productivity and agricultural quality in our country.
  • Special article
    ZHANG Yujia, XIU Changbai, HAN Chang, ZHONG Yi, Siqinmenghe
    Modern Agriculture. 2024, 49(6): 3-10.
    New quality productivity is a strong driving force to promote the Party and the country’s various undertakings to achieve high-quality development in the new era, but also to promote the modernization of agriculture and rural development is an important support, which plays a key role in leading the development of modern large-scale agriculture and realizing the green and low-carbon transformation. On 10-11 August 2024, development Institute of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Inner Mongolia Agricultural University and Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Academy of Agriculture and Animal Husbandry organized experts and scholars in the industry to carry out seminars and exchanges around the theme of “Modernization of Forestry, Animal Husbandry, Fishery and Grassland Industry with New Productivity”, discussing the current situation of modernization of forestry, animal husbandry, fishery and grassland industries and how to develop new productivity to promote modernization of forestry, animal husbandry, fishery and grassland industries. Wei Houkai, President of China Association of Forestry, Animal Husbandry and Fishery Economics, Zhang Junbiao, Vice President of Zhejiang Rural Revitalization Research Institute of Zhejiang Agricultural and Forestry University, Liu Can, Deputy Director of Development Research Center of State Forestry and Grassland Administration, Xin Guochang, Deputy Director of Bureau of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Medicine of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, and Chen Jie, Deputy Director of Rural Economy Research Center of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Economy delivered keynote speeches on five aspects of the conference including modernized large-scale agriculture, green and low-carbon development of agriculture, high-quality development of forestry, development of the livestock industry and modernization of the fishery industry. The conference set up special forums on forestry economy, aquaculture economy, grass economy, young scholars, master’s and doctoral students, and international students to discuss how to promote the modernization of forestry, animal husbandry, fishery and grassland industries in the field. On the morning of 11 August in the animal husbandry economy and policy forum, the Inner Mongolia Academy of Agricultural and Animal Husbandry Science Think Tank Chief Scientist, Professor Xiu Changbai and other eight well-known experts around the development of animal husbandry made a special report. In the afternoon of August 11, the conference also held a “Seminar on Agricultural Development Strategy of Yuquan District, Hohhot”, in which the participating consulting experts put forward valuable suggestions for the agricultural and economic development of Yuquan District in Hohhot from various perspectives such as the positioning of urban agriculture development and the integration of agriculture, culture and tourism development. In view of this, this special issue contains a compilation of the opinions and suggestions of experts and scholars, with a view to stimulating further reflection on the modernization and development of forestry, animal husbandry and fishery in the academic community.
  • Special article
    ZHOU Yinhang, GONG Zhengqi
    Modern Agriculture. 2024, 49(5): 9-9.
    Based on the provincial panel data of 31 provinces, autonomous regions and cities in mainland China from 2012 to 2021, this paper analyzed the income-boosting effect and pathway of digital inclusive finance for rural households through the combined double fixed model and moderation effect model. The research findings showed that digital inclusive finance could significantly promote the improvement of rural household income; the “access to finance” and “access to information” both had a positive moderating effect on the income-boosting effect of digital inclusive finance for rural households, the heterogeneity analysis showed that the positive impact of digital inclusive finance coverage on rural household income was the most significant, and the positive effect of digital inclusive finance development on rural households with low education level was more significant. This paper plays a positive and constructive role in promoting rural revitalization, increasing rural household income, and narrowing the urban-rural income gap.
  • Agro-pastoral economy
    DENG Liqian
    Modern Agriculture. 2024, 49(5): 73-81.
    Agriculture is the cornerstone of maintaining social stability and promoting economic development. The strengthening of agricultural economy resilience is conducive to the high-quality development of the agricultural industry, and has important practical significance for promoting rural revitalization and realizing agricultural modernization. Taking 14 cities and autonomous prefectures in Hunan Province as research samples, the entropy method was used to comprehensively measure the agricultural economic resilience of each city and autonomous prefecture from 2008 to 2021. The index and decomposition were used to explore the difference characteristics and sources of agricultural economic resilience, and on this basis, the influencing factors of agricultural economic resilience were analyzed with geographical detectors. The results showed that from 2008 to 2021, the level of agricultural economic resilience of all cities and autonomous prefectures in Hunan Province had improved rapidly, among which the mean value of agricultural economic resilience of Changsha City was the highest, and that of Zhangjiajie City was the lowest; During the study period, the overall difference of agricultural economic resilience in Hunan Province decreased year by year, and intra-regional difference contributed the most to the overall difference; Agricultural economic scale, production factor input, government support and regional market environment are the main influencing factors of agricultural economic resilience in Hunan Province.Therefore,it is necessary to continue to increase the scale of agricultural economy,the input of agricultural production factors and the implementation of government support,stabilize the market environment,coordinate the coordinated and stable development of agricultural economic resilience of each cities and autonomous prefectures,in order to continuously improve the internal driving force of agricultural economic resilience in Hunan Province.
  • Agro-pastoral economy
    DOU Mengzhao, CHEN Tuoyu, SUN Zibao
    Modern Agriculture. 2024, 49(5): 38-46.
    It has a great theoretical and practical significance to better promote the Chinese path to modernization by accelerating the modernization of the “agriculture, rural areas and farmers”. Based on the data of Xizang from 2013 to 2022, this paper selected 12 indicators from the three dimensions of agricultural modernization, rural modernization and peasant modernization to construct an evaluation index system for the modernization level of “agriculture, rural areas and farmers” in Xizang, and used the entropy weight TOPSIS method and grey correlation model to empirically analyze the modernization level and its influencing factors of “agriculture, rural areas and farmers” in Xizang. The results showed that the modernization level of “agriculture, rural areas and farmers” areas in Xizang was generally stable and improving; the dimension of agricultural modernization had gradually become a weak link in the modernization development of Xizang's “agriculture, rural areas and farmers” areas; the amount of chemical fertilizer usage, the total grain output, the number of rural employees, the average number of cars per 100 rural households, the per capita self-owned housing area in rural areas, and the number of township health personnel were the core factors affecting the modernization level of Xizang's “agriculture, rural areas and farmers”. Therefore, countermeasures and suggestions were put forward from the six indicators with a correlation degree of less than 0.8, namely, the total power of agricultural machinery, the total output value of agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and fishery, rural electricity consumption, the number of employees in mass cultural undertakings, the per capita disposable income of rural areas, and the per capita consumption expenditure of rural residents.
  • Rural revitalization
    MA Shaohua
    Modern Agriculture. 2024, 49(6): 21-28.
    Agricultural enterprises are the backbone of the overall promotion rural revitalization, and have obvious advantages in perfecting the rural industrial system, raising the level of agricultural science and technology, and driving farmers to increase income. Based on the perspective of value co-creation, this paper take the practice of participation in rural revitalization of Wynn Food Group Co., Ltd., as an example to explore the action logic of agricultural enterprises in rural revitalization. The results of the study showed that agricultural enterprises were deeply involved in rural revitalization along the action logic of “value proposition—value creation—value sharing”, whose value propositions for participation in rural revitalization were diversified. Driven by diversified value propositions, it continuously created economic, environmental and social values through technological innovation, industrial chain upgrading, model innovation of uniting and promoting agriculture. and participation in rural construction, etc. It also achieved win-win value through the construction of formal and informal systems, and ultimately promoted the comprehensive rural revitalization.
  • Agro-pastoral economy
    TENG Jiamin, LIAO Jingping, YUAN Dongyu
    Modern Agriculture. 2024, 49(5): 55-63.
    Exploring the prices fluctuation risk of swine industry chain is related to the healthy operation of macro economy and the guarantee of residents' welfare. The prices of the swine industry chain from January 2000 to December 2022 were selected as the research data. Firstly, three mutation points in the swine industry chain were obtained through BP structure mutation point test, which were July 2007, July 2015 and August 2019, respectively. Then, non-parametric kernel density estimation method was used to estimate the price risk changes before and after the three mutation points. The results showed that compared to Jaly 2007 and July 2015, the fluctuation risk of price series before and after August 2019 had changed significantly. Among them, the probability of risk changes in live swine prices was the highest, reaching 41.29%; the probability of risk changes in pork prices was 40.20%, which lightly lower than that of live swine; the probability of risk changes for piglets was 18.11%.Based on this, the heterogeneity of price fluctuation risk in the swine industry chain was analyzed and relevant policy suggestions were put forward.
  • Special article
    ZHANG Yujia, XIU Changbai, ZHONG Yi, HAN Chang, Siqinmenghe
    Modern Agriculture. 2024, 49(5): 3-6.
    Agriculture and animal husbandry is the foundation of economic and social development in Inner Mongolia, directly related to the common prosperity of farmers and herdsmen and the coordinated development of urban and rural areas. Since the 18th CPC National Congress, the development momentum of Inner Mongolia's agriculture and animal husbandry has been strong, and it has become the country's “grain depot”“meat depot”“milk cans”and“velvet are”. It plays an important role in guaranteeing the stable and safe supply of national food and important agricultural products. However, the development of agriculture and animal husbandry in Inner Mongolia has received extensive attention from government departments and experts and scholars due to the prominent problems such as tightening resource and environmental constraints, weak agricultural infrastructure, low degree of integration of the three industries, weak scientific and technological support capacity, imperfect agricultural insurance system and so on.On July 12-14, 2024,the Agricultural Modernization Branch of China Association of Agricultural Science Societies, the Inner Mongolia Agricultural Economics Society and Inner Mongolia Academy of Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Sciences organized industry experts and scholars to discuss and exchange the development strategies of agriculture and animal husbandry in Inner Mongolia. The goal was to provide guidance for Inner Mongolia to complete the task of“construction of national important agricultural and livestock products production base”, to carry the major political responsibility of guaranteeing national food security, and to accelerate the construction of agricultural and animal husbandry strong area. In view of those, this feature collated the views and suggestions of experts and scholars, in order to cause the further reflection on agiculture and animal husbandry in Inner Mongolia.
  • Agro-pastoral economy
    WANG Min
    Modern Agriculture. 2024, 49(6): 79-86.
    The agro-processing industry is an important foundation for promoting modern agriculture chain extension and supplementation, and it is also a practical need to comprehensively promote rural revitalization, which is of great significance to realize the integrated development of three industries in rural areas, The development level of Yibin’s agricultural economy is inseparable from the growth of agro-processing industry. In this paper, quantitative and qualitative research methods were used to analyze the development status of Yibin’s modern “5+2” agro-processing industry. The purpose was to find out the existing problems and put forward suggestions for the next development, finally providing some reference for promoting the high-quality development level of Yibin’s agro-processing industry, accelerating the pace of agricultural and rural modernization and building a modern agricultural city.
  • Agro-pastoral economy
    SHUN Deri, DING Ji
    Modern Agriculture. 2024, 49(6): 29-38.
    Based on panel data for 30 provinces in China, excluding the Xizang Autonomous Region and Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan from 2011 to 2021, this study constructs a comprehensive evaluation index system to measure the level of new quality productivity and agricultural economic resilience, followed by exploring the effect and mechanism of the influence of new quality productivity on the agricultural economic resilience by means of the bidirectional fixed effect model and the mediation model. The results of the study showed that new quality productivity significantly increased the level of agricultural economic resilience and the finding still holds after a series of robustness tests. Further analysis revealed that new productivity mainly enhances resilience by strengthening the resistance and recovery capabilities of the agricultural economy. In addition, it was also found that new productivity could empower the resilience of the agricultural economy by promoting the upgrading of the rural consumption structure and enhancing the entrepreneurial vitality of rural residents, which possessed a significant role in promoting the resilience of the agricultural economy in both food-producing and non-food-producing areas, with food-producing areas being stronger than non-food-producing areas. Based on these, it is suggested to create a favorable environment for the development of new quality productivity, promote deep integration of new quality productivity with the agricultural economy, formulate differentiated agricultural development policies, and accelerate the realization of the strategic goal of a strong agricultural country.
  • Agro-pastoral economy
    YANG Lijuan, SONG Junwei, YANG Tongming
    Modern Agriculture. 2024, 49(5): 64-72.
    The modernization of agricultural reclamation and the rural industrial revitalization are “two sides of one body”, and their integrated development plays an important role in filling the shortcomings of agricultural and rural development and promoting agricultural modernization. In this paper, the karst landform distribution area was taken as the research object, and the comprehensive development level of the modernization of agricultural reclamation and rural industrial revitalization was calculated by combining information weight with independence weight, and the coordinated development degree and relative development degree of the two were quantitatively evaluated by coupling coordination degree model and relative development degree model, so as to explore the effective path of agricultural and rural modernization construction in karst landform distribution area of China. The research showed that the comprehensive development level and the coupling and coordinated development level of the modernization of agricultural reclamation and the rural industrial revitalization in China's karst landform distribution areas were on the rise from 2011 to 2020; taking 2018 as the node, the modernization of agricultural reclamation and the rural industrial revitalization had changed from running-in development to coordinated development; the relative development degree of the two showed a trend of “the development of the modernization of agricultural reclamation is relatively lagging behind-balanced development-the development of the rural industrial revitalization is relatively lagging behind”. In view of the above research results, some suggestions were put forward to provide theoretical support for the coordinated development of rural revitalization and agricultural and rural modernization in China.
  • Agro-pastoral economy
    MEI Zefeng
    Modern Agriculture. 2024, 49(5): 82-88.
    Based on the panel data of 30 provinces , autonomous regions and cities(except Xizang Autonomous Region, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan) in China from 2011 to 2020, this paper empirically examined the impact effect and mechanism of digital economy on high-quality agricultural development by using the two-way fixed effect model and the mediation effect model. The results showed that the digital economy could effectively promote the high-quality development of agriculture in China, and the promotion effect was more obvious in the eastern region. At the same time, the results of the intermediary effect test showed that the digital economy could improve the level of high-quality agricultural development by promoting the transfer of farmland and increasing the proportion of agricultural fixed asset investment. To this end, it is necessary to increase investment in the research and development of digital technology, accelerate the construction process of digital villages, improve the standardization of land transfer procedures, and establish a good credit platform to promote high-quality agricultural development.
  • Ecological and environmental protection
    YANG Jin, CHENG Li
    Modern Agriculture. 2024, 49(6): 105-112.
    Taking the Yangtze River Economic Belt as the research object, based on the panel data from 2006 to 2021, the coupled coordination degree model was first used to estimate and analyze the level of agricultural pollution reduction and carbon synergistic development in the Yangtze River Economic Belt. On this basis, the distribution of the coupled coordination degree level of agriculture in the Yangtze River Economic Belt was elaborated, and then the Dagum Gini coefficient was used to analyze the spatial differences of the cooperative development level. Finally, a regression model was established to analyze the influencing factors for the level of cooperative development of agricultural pollution reduction and carbon reduction in the Yangtze River Economic Belt. It was found that there were obvious spatial differences in the coordination level of pollution reduction and carbon reduction in the Yangtze River Economic Belt, with an overall upward trend, and the supervariable density contributing the most to the spatial differentiation. The coupling coordination degree of pollution reduction and carbon reduction in the Yangtze River Economic Belt was barely coordinated in 2006, but the other years were on the verge of imbalance. Specifically, the coupling coordination degree of pollution reduction and carbon reduction in the upstream region was better than that in other regions as a whole, while the collaborative development performance of agricultural pollution reduction and carbon reduction in Chongqing and Shanghai was relatively outstanding, basically stabilizing at the primary coordination level; the effects of mechanization level, rural education level, industrial structure, rural economic level and financial support for agriculture on the level of coordinated development of agricultural pollution reduction and carbon reduction in the Yangtze River Economic Belt vary somewhat by region.
  • Rural revitalization
    WANG Xin, HOU Xiaofei, NIU Yaqun, WANG Rui
    Modern Agriculture. 2024, 49(5): 18-25.
    The integration of fruit industrial and tourism industrial is an important part of rural cultural and tourism development, and is an important path for fruit tree planting areas in Shanxi Province to achieve rural revitalization and common prosperity. By analyzing the planting area, yield and layout characteristics of orchards in 26 fruit industry cluster counties in Shanxi Province, it was found that the fruit industry cluster areas in Shanxi Province were distributed in basins and hilly areas, forming a pattern with Linyi as the core, Yuncheng as the main production area, Shanxi Province's low altitude north-south ecological corridor as the axis, Jinzhong as the secondary core area, and Changzhi, Datong and Linfen as the radiating areas. On the basis of analyzing the current situation of the integration of fruit industrial and tourism industrial, the development level of integration between fruit and tourism industries was evaluated through location quotient, entropy weight method, coupled scheduling and grey correlation method. It was found that the integration between fruit and tourism industries was still in its infancy, and the connection between fruit and tourism was not close. Thus, this paper summarized the development trend of fruit and tourism industries indtegration in Shanxi Province's fruit industry cluster area. Based on the above research results, this paper provided targeted suggestions to optimize the path of fruit and tourism industrial indtegration in Shanxi Province.
  • Rural revitalization
    CHEN Xiaolong, ZHANG Haibo
    Modern Agriculture. 2024, 49(6): 11-20.
    Agricultural development is the foundation of rural revitalization, while finance is the booster of agricultural development. This study was based on the development goal of building an “agricultural and livestock food industry base” in Baotou City, and through field research, data collection, collation and analysis, it identified the problems that exist in the process of building an “agricultural and livestock food industry base” in Baotou City, such as the difficulty of meeting the financing needs of new agricultural business entities, the inadequacy of financial linkages, and the lack of enhancement of the breadth and depth of insurance coverage. In view of the above problems, it was proposed to further innovate the form of financial services, play the role of financial linkage, and improve the level of agricultural insurance protection and other countermeasures and suggestions, with a view to enhancing the financial service capacity for the construction of the agricultural and livestock food industry base in Baotou City, and promoting the comprehensive of rural revitalization.
  • Agro-pastoral economy
    WANG Xiaoyan, MAI Qiangsheng
    Modern Agriculture. 2024, 49(5): 47-54.
    With the development of regional economy integration and the agriculture modernization, the role of agricultural outward investment in agricultural product trade is becoming increasingly prominent. Based on the agricultural trade data between China and RCEP countries from 2004 to 2019, the VAR model was used to further analyze the impact of China's agricultural OFDI on agricultural trade among RCEP member countries. The research suggestsd that in the long run, China's outward foreign direct investment in agriculture would give China a sustained positive impact on agricultural trade with other RCEP member countries, and there was heterogeneity in the magnitude of the impact of China's outward agricultural investment on different member countries; China's agricultural OFDI would promote agricultural cooperation and development in RCEP economies. Therefore, it is recommended that powerful agricultural enterprises should actively “go global” and flexibly adjust the foreign investment strategies based on trade conditions to maximize the sustained growth of agricultural product trade in the RCEP economy.
  • Ecological and environmental protection
    LI Zheng, TAN Renyuan, SHEN Chuanshun
    Modern Agriculture. 2024, 49(5): 102-112.
    This paper utilized panel data of 30 provinces, autonomous regions and cities (except Xizang Autonomous Region, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan) from 2010 to 2019, to measure the degree of coupling coordination between government and public environmental attention. It empirically tested their impacts on agricultural carbon emissions and the mechanisms. The results revealed that the increase in government and public environmental attention could suppress agricultural carbon emissions, with the inhibitory effect of government environmental attention being greater than that of public environmental attention. Further analysis indicated there was regional heterogeneity in the impacts of government and public environmental attention on agricultural carbon emissions. Both types of attention suppressed agricultural carbon emissions by promoting formal and informal environmental regulations. Consequently, this paper suggested differentiated strategies for adjusting environmental attention.
  • Agro-pastoral economy
    HAO Mengyu, XIE Yanming, LIU Shuaishi
    Modern Agriculture. 2024, 49(5): 89-94.
    As a new agricultural operating entity, family farms play an important role in ensuring national food security. In recent years, the phenomenon of some cultivated land being “non-grain transformation” due to their large-scale operation had attracted academic attention. This paper used the Logit binary model and Tobit model to empirically analyze data from 182 family farms in Jingdong County. The results indicated that within a certain range, the increase in land transfer area significantly increased the probability of family farms growing food crops. However, the increase in the proportion of land transfer area in the total land area had a negative impact on the probability of planting food crops. In addition, factors such as farmer characteristics, labor characteristics, farm characteristics, and financial characteristics also had a profound impact on the planting structure of family farms. Based on this, the government should stabilize land relations, increase special financial support, establish demonstration family farms, and strictly control the use of arable land, improve the enthusiasm of family farms for grain cultivation, and ensure national food security.
  • Agro-pastoral economy
    ZHANG Qinghong, LI Shiyu
    Modern Agriculture. 2024, 49(6): 39-51.
    Promoting the modernization of agriculture and rural areas is an important target task for the implementation of rural revitalization, as well as a necessary way to realize Chinese path of modernization. Based on the statistical data of nine provinces in the Yellow River basin from 2010 to 2022, the study measured the development level of agricultural and rural modernization in the Yellow River basin by using the entropy weight-TOPSIS method, and researched its regional differences and dynamic evolution characteristics based on the Dagum’s Gini coefficient, Moran’s I, kernel density estimation, and Markov chain. The results showed that in the sample observation period, the development level of agricultural and rural modernization, agricultural modernization and rural modernization in the Yellow River basin displayed an upward trend from 2010 to 2022, but the development level of rural modernization rose slower; the overall difference in the development level of agricultural and rural modernization showed a fluctuating downward trend, in which the difference between groups was the main source of the overall difference and there was a significant spatial aggregation; the distribution curve of nuclear density had gradually shifted to the right, and the polarization had improved; it is also found that the future development level of agricultural and rural modernization in the Yellow River basin showed a gradient upward trend, and the future development level of each province was related to its neighboring provinces. Accordingly, multi-directional attention should be paid to rural development, regional characteristic industries should be developed according to local conditions, regional synergistic cooperation should be strengthened, and the radiation-driven role of regions with high levels of agricultural and rural modernization development should be brought into full play.
  • Agro-pastoral economy
    OU Lin, QUAN Lihua
    Modern Agriculture. 2024, 49(6): 96-104.
    New quality productivity is an important breakthrough and core point to promote the high-quality development of agriculture and realize agricultural modernization. At the historical aspect, the new quality productivity empowered agricultural modernization follows the development law of the new round of scientific revolution and industrial change. At the theoretical aspect, it inherits and develops the Marxist theory of productivity. And it meets the realistic needs for the development of agricultural modernization in the new era at the practical aspect. The mechanism of the new quality productivity for agricultural modernization is to improve the efficiency of agricultural production and the quality of agricultural products, lead the transformation and upgrading of the agricultural industry, ensure a stable and secure supply of food and important agricultural products, increase the economic income of farmers, and promote ecological environmental protection and sustainable development. To develop new quality productivity, should fecus on comprehensively promoting agricultural modernization in innovation-driven, industrial reshaping, talent supporting and green transformation.
  • Agro-pastoral economy
    ZHANG Chengtao, OUYANG Wenjie, JU Fang
    Modern Agriculture. 2024, 49(6): 61-68.
    The key to promoting high-quality agricultural development is to optimize agricultural production input and improve agricultural production efficiency. Based on statistical data from 12 leagues and cities in Inner Mongolia, this study used a three-stage DEA model to measure the agricultural production efficiency of rural and pastoral areas in Inner Mongolia. The results showed that, without excluding the effects of environmental factors and random errors, the agricultural production efficiency in rural and pastoral areas of Inner Mongolia was at a relatively high level, after excluding the effects of environmental factors and random errors, the comprehensive technical efficiency and pure technical efficiency of agricultural production in rural and pastoral areas of Inner Mongolia decreased, while scale efficiency increased; in addition, per capita disposable income of farmers and herdsmen, agricultural, forestry and water affairs expenditures, transportation conditions, etc. all had a significant positive effect on agricultural production efficiency, while urbanization level of urbanization had a significant negative effect. Therefore, this paper proposes some measures such as optimizing the government’s financial expenditure structure for agriculture, improving the level of agricultural resource allocation, appropriately expanding agricultural production scale, and advancing the modernization of agriculture, etc in orde to promote the stable improvement of agricultural production efficiency in rural and pastoral areas of Inner Mongolia.
  • Ecological and environmental protection
    ZHOU Tao, LI Jiao
    Modern Agriculture. 2024, 49(5): 95-101.
    As one of the important grain production bases in China, Hubei Province's agricultural carbon emissions are related to the balance between the ecological environment and economic development, and has great significance for achieving the goal of sustainable development. The emission coefficient method was used to measure the total amount, intensity and composition of agricultural carbon emissions in Hubei Province from 2005 to 2022, and the decoupling relationship with economic development and agricultural carbon emissions, as well as the influencing factors of agricultural carbon emissions were analysed based on the Tapio decoupling model and the LMDI model, respectively. The results showed that: from 2005 to 2022, the agricultural carbon emissions in Hubei Province show a trend of increasing and then decreasing; in the composition of the agricultural carbon emissions in Hubei Province, were as follows: fertiliser, pesticide, diesel, agricultural film, irrigation and sowing; the intensity of the agricultural carbon emissions decreased year by year; the decoupling elasticity between agricultural carbon emissions from the economic growth showed the evolution of the trend from a weak decoupling to a strong decoupling; the level of agricultural economic development had the most obvious promotion effect on agricultural carbon emissions, and agricultural production efficiency also had a certain promotion effect on carbon emissions, but the result was not significant; the size of the agricultural population and the structure of the agricultural industry could inhibit the growth of carbon emissions. Based on this, Hubei Province should base on the basic advantages of a large agricultural province, fully explore the potential of agricultural emission reduction and carbon fixation, strengthen agricultural technological innovation, and improve the quality of agricultural labour to promote carbon emission reduction.
  • Agro-pastoral economy
    BAI Enlai, WANG Jingyao, LI Siman
    Modern Agriculture. 2024, 49(6): 69-78.
    Agricultural modernization is an important content of comprehensively promoting the construction of socialist modernization, and agriculture is a weak industry, which needs continuous support and assistance from the government. Based on the theoretical analysis of sci-tec innovation inputs on the improvement of agricultural productivity, the article take nine provinces and regions in the Yellow River basin from 2010 to 2021 as the research object, constructed the evaluation system of agricultural modernization, and analyzd the effectiveness of government inputs in promoting the process of agricultural modernization through panel regression model. The study shows that sci-tec innovation inputs played a very limited role and had a significant effect in promoting farm mechanization operations in the upper and middle reaches. The core of government assistance in agricultural development was to enhance agricultural productivity. In further research, through the coupling analysis of sci-tech innovation inputs, non-sci-tech innovation inputs on agricultural productivity, it was found that the primary reason for the limited effect of sci-tech innovation input on agricultural modernization in 9 provinces of the Yellow River basin was the imbalance between sci-tech innovation input and agricultural production efficiency. Accordingly, relevant policy recommendations are put forward to lay a theoretical foundation for further optimizing government inputs and taking the “last mile” of agricultural scientific and technological achievements transformation.
  • Agro-pastoral economy
    HOU Zhihui, ZHANG Yujia, Sarula, HAN Chang, HU Kexin, WANG Zhenzhong, LU Hailin
    Modern Agriculture. 2024, 49(6): 52-60.
    With the in-depth implementation of the rural revitalization strategy, the deep integration of agriculture, culture and tourism has become a key hand in promoting rural economic development and rural cultural revitalization. As one of the five major pastoral areas in China, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region has multiple resource endowments such as animal husbandry, nomadic folk landscape, traditional villages, etc. The degree of integration of agriculture, culture and tourism has been deepening and has formed pastoral culture and tourism industry with its own characteristics. In this background, this study took the development of Inner Mongolia’s pastoralism, culture and tourism industry as an example, constructed an evaluation index system. Using the entropy value method and the coupling coordination degree model to evaluated the coupling coordination degree of the animal husbandry, cultural industry and tourism industry in Inner Mongolia from 2010 to 2022. The results showed that the average coupling degree of animal husbandry, culture and tourism from 2010—2022 was 0.925, and there was a high degree of coupling among the three industries. The average coupling coordination degree of animal husbandry, culture and tourism was 0.350, and the three industries were in the stage of mild imbalance. In general, the pastoral culture and tourism industry in Inner Mongolia had some problems such as low degree of coupling coordination, slow improvement and unstable development. Accordingly, it puts forward countermeasures and suggestions to further improve the integration and development level of the pastoral, cultural and tourism industry.
  • Agro-pastoral economy
    LI Li, CAO Wenxian, LI Liping
    Modern Agriculture. 2024, 49(6): 87-95.
    Constructing a standardized and scientific multidimensional concept and scale for the competency quality of rural wealthy leaders is benefit to understand the true level of their quality in the context of rural revitalization, provide some references for the government to cultivate rural wealthy leaders, which is important significance for improving the quality of rural wealthy leaders. This study refined the competency dimensions of rural wealthy leaders, measured the competence quality of rural wealth leaders, and empirically test the scientific validity and operability of the developed scale using exploratory factor analysis and validation factor analysis. The results indicated that the competency qualities of rural wealthy leaders include 16 characteristics, such as smart agricultural production, ecological agricultural knowledge, rural e-commerce operation, resource integration, data analysis, assistance ability, and ability to acquire social capital. These 16 characteristics could be further classified into three dimensions, including agricultural professional knowledge, agricultural skills and leadership ability. The three dimensions were both interconnected and distinctive, formed an organic whole. The competency quality scale for rural wealthy leaders constructed on this basis has good validity, which could not only effectively reflects the competency quality level of rural wealthy leaders, but also clearly presents the uniqueness of their competency quality.
  • Agro-pastoral economy
    ZHANG Xin, MAI Qiangsheng
    Modern Agriculture. 2025, 50(2): 46-55.
    Affected by the complex internal and external environment, the development of agricultural economy faces many risks and challenges,enhancing agricultural economic resilience has become a major practical issue in realizing agricultural modernization and building a strong agricultural country. Based on a comprehensive evaluation of the high-quality development of rural finance and the level of agricultural economic resilience in China, this article empirically studied the impact of high-quality development of rural finance on agricultural economic resilience. The study found that:the high-quality development of rural finance could significantly promote agricultural economic resilience, and this positive effect exhibited regional heterogeneity, particularly significant in central provinces and major grain-producing areas. In addition, at present, the positive effect of high-quality rural financial development on agricultural economic resilience mainly depended on quantitative expansion rather than qualitative improvement. Based on these findings, it is recommended to expand the supply of rural financial services, innovate financial products, and better utilize the function of capital flow. At the same time, formulate financial assistance policies tailored to local agricultural development, promote the matching of rural financial supply with the practical needs of high-quality development of rural economic, and enhance the role of high-quality development of rural finance in promoting agricultural economic resilience.
  • Agro-pastoral economy
    FU Wenfeng, ZHAI Yuanqing, ZHANG Yuetao
    Modern Agriculture. 2025, 50(1): 86-95.
    It is of great significance to the construction of ecologically livable villages to mobilize farmers to participate in rural environmental improvement and play the main role. The article employed ordered Probit model and moderated mediation effect test to clarify the influence mechanism of policy value identification, cost perception and face consciousness on farmers’ willingness to participate in environmental remediation based on 743 research data from farmers in Feixi County, Hefei City. The results show that: 50.06% of the interviewed farmers’ willingness to participate in rural environmental remediation was at the general level and below, and the farmers’ enthusiasm for participating in environmental remediation needed to be improved. Policy value identification and face consciousness had a significant positive effect on farmers’ willingness to participate, while cost perception had a significant negative effect. Cost perception played a partial mediating role between policy value identification and farmers’ willingness to participate, and improving farmers’ policy value identification of rural environmental remediation could reduce the inhibiting effect of cost perception on farmers’ willingness to participate. The face consciousness also played a positive moderating role between the policy value identification and farmers’ willingness to participate, and the influence of the policy value identification on the farmers’ willingness to participate would be enhanced when the farmers’ face consciousness was stronger. Therefore, it should improve the policy value identification of rural households by strengthening the publicity and education on rural environmental improvement. Measures such as encouraging a variety of forms of participation based on individual endowment differences to reduce the cost perception of farmers, creating a community atmosphere for all to participate in environmental remediation, and play ing the positive role of the face consciousness, should be taken to increase the motivation of farmers to participate in environmental remediation.
  • Agro-pastoral economy
    MA Li, LIU Yuang
    Modern Agriculture. 2025, 50(1): 47-57.
    The green development of agriculture is an intrinsic driving force for promoting high-quality agricultural development, and the green production behavior of farmers is a key link in achieving green agricultural development. The paper was based on research data from 810 households in Pindu County-level City, Shandong Province, an ordered Logit model was used to analyze the effects of government actions,market mechanisms and community governance on green production behaviors of farmers. The results showed that: Among the factors influencing the green production behavior of farmers, government publicity and promotion, government training and guidance, and government regulation all had a significant positive effect; market information service and sales rule constraints in market mechanism had significant positive effect; neighborhood demonstration in community governance also possessed a significant positive effect; in the control variables,gender, age, and labor force had significant negative effects on the influencing factors of green production behavior in farmers while household income level had a significant positive effect. Heterogeneity analysis suggested that there was a significant difference between neighborhood demonstration in promoting green production among low-income and high-income farmers. Therefore,the government should formulate diversified support policies,activate green production dynamics, build green agricultural markets, stimulate demand for green products; improve the rural community regulatory system, regulate the production behavior of farmers; and play the full synergistic governance roles of the government, the market and the community in order to effectively promote the green development of agriculture.