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  • Agro-pastoral economy
    SHEN Shumin, YANG Yunli, CAO Xia
    Modern Agriculture. 2025, 50(2): 10-18.
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    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.
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    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
    LIU Xuting, LI Yubei, DENG Shengju
    Modern Agriculture. 2025, 50(2): 19-28.
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    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.
  • 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
    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.
  • 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
    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
    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
    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
    CAI Wangqing, CAI Wang
    Modern Agriculture. 2025, 50(5): 1-13.
    Under the rural revitalization strategy, financial literacy education for farmers in the eastern, western and northern regions of Guangdong Province is of vital importance for promoting the sustainable development of the rural economy. At present, financial literacy education in this region has achieved certain results, but there are still many problems, such as deviations in educational cognition and insufficient attention in thought; educational resources are relatively limited and the channels for acquiring knowledge are narrow; educational content is divorced from reality and lacks pertinence and innovation; educational model is monotonous and lacks diversity, interactivity and fun; frequent telecom and online fraud have exacerbated the spread of trust crises, etc. In response to these issues, based on a systematic review of successful experiences such as promoting financial literacy education through agricultural training classes during the "village-building movement" in Oita Prefecture, Japan; integrating financial literacy education for villagers into the "rural renewal" in Germany; and the "three-dimensional integration" financial literacy education practice in Quanzhou County, Guangxi; a further in-depth analysis was conducted on the new opportunities faced by financial literacy education for farmers in the eastern, western and northern regions of Guangdong Province. Finally, it is proposed to cultivate new types of subjects and leverage their leading and exemplary role, promote digital empowerment and expand educational service channels, focus on industrial demands and customize characteristic financial and economic courses, strengthen financial support and build a bridge for the connection between industry and finance, strengthen information empowerment and build a pattern of mass prevention and control. So as to provide references for improving the level of financial literacy education in the eastern, western and northern regions of Guangdong Province.
  • Agro-pastoral economy
    YUAN Qiuyue, ZHAO Yiping, CHANG Xiang, LI Yijin, WANG Huan, CHANG Qian
    Modern Agriculture. 2025, 50(5): 14-29.
    Cultivating the new quality rural productive forces is a core driver for facilitating the transformation and upgrading of major grain-producing regions and strengthening international agricultural competitiveness. Using the core area of "Tianfu Granary" as a case study, this paper built a "dual-support, four-level nested" analytical framework to systematically assess the practical foundations and major obstacles to cultivating the new quality rural productive forces in major grain-producing regions, and proposed actionable and scalable strategies for advancement. The study revealed that: the core area of "Tianfu Granary" had achieved notable progress in agricultural mechanization, digitalization, and green transition, evidenced by a stable production foundation, steadily increasing labor productivity, and continuous improvement in human capital. Nevertheless, it continued to face multiple challenges, including inadequate technological adaptation, lagging institutional support, uneven service systems, tightening resource and environmental constraints, insufficient market and financial support, and limited resilience in risk prevention and control mechanisms. In response, this paper proposed a series of systematic strategies, such as technology integration and extension, institutional innovation and factor reform, building socialized service systems, promoting green and low-carbon transformation, improving market and financial mechanisms, and strengthening risk management systems, all aimed at comprehensively enhancing the new quality rural productive forces.
  • 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.
  • Agro-pastoral economy
    HAN Chang, ZHANG Yujia, Siqinmenghe, ZHONG Yi, WU Lingxin, LU Pengjie, HAN Luming, XUE Zhipeng, ZHANG Jia
    Modern Agriculture. 2025, 50(4): 59-72.
    As a major spring rapeseed producing area and an important base for agricultural and livestock products in China, Inner Mongolia plays a crucial role in the national strategy of "increasing domestic oil supply in the oil bottle ". Based on the macro statistical data of Inner Mongolia and its 12 leagues/cities from 2012 to 2023, this study systematically explored the overall production characteristics of oil crops in Inner Mongolia, with a specific focus on analyzing the regional differences, development potential and practical dilemmas of the rapeseed industry by adopting data analysis methods. It also revealed issues related to rapeseed processing and market promotion, and proposed corresponding recommendations to enhance the overall efficiency of the rapeseed industry. The study showed that: from 2012 to 2023, the sown area and total output of oil crops in Inner Mongolia showed an overall trend of "steady growth with fluctuations", although rape was not a dominant crop, its sustained and stable production was of great value. It could not only optimize the planting structure of oil crops in Inner Mongolia and mitigate the risk of over-reliance on a single crop, but also support the supply of regional characteristic oilseeds. From the perspective of regional differences, rapeseed producing areas in Inner Mongolia were divided into four categories, Hulun Buir City as the core area, Xing′an League and Ulanqab City as the potential areas, Chifeng City and Tongliao City as the auxiliary producing areas, and Wuhai City and Alagxa League as the areas with minimal rapeseed cultivation. The rapeseed industry in Inner Mongolia had three major development potentials: superior natural conditions, improved planting technologies, and strong policy support. However, there were problems such as weak seed source foundation and outdated cultivation techniques in the planting process. In terms of industrial chain extension, it faced problems including lagging intensive processing, weak industrial chain coordination, and obstacles in technology promotion. Accordingly, specific measures were proposed, including strengthening technological research on breeding and other fields, building an intelligent agricultural production system, improving the intensive and deep processing technology system and enhancing relevant facilities and equipment, intensifying the interest linkage mechanism and strengthening brand building and international cooperation, increasing government support to promote the technology popularization across the entire industrial chain, and establishing a mechanism for provincial-level overall planning and coordination among leagues and cities to improve overall efficiency. These measures were aimed at providing references for the high-quality development of the rapeseed industry in Inner Mongolia.
  • Ecological and environmental protection
    PEI Jie, ZHANG Xiaoxu, QIAO Guanghua
    Modern Agriculture. 2025, 50(5): 97-112.
    Traditional farming culture has the essential connotation of protecting nature. Whether the strengthening of cultural identity can affect the production behavior of farmers has important policy implications for the continuous promotion of straw resource utilization. Based on the survey samples of 307 households in the cultural heritage site of the Aohan dry farming system in Inner Mongolia, this paper adopted the Logit model to study the influence of traditional farming cultural identity on farmers′ adoption behavior of straw returning technology, and took environmental regulations as the moderating variables to explore the regulatory effects of different types of environmental regulations on farmers′ traditional cultural identity and straw returning behavior. The results indicated that: farmers′ identification with traditional farming culture significantly affected their adoption behavior of straw returning technology. The restrictive regulation had a negative moderating effect between traditional farming cultural identity and straw returning technology adoption behavior, while agricultural technology training in the guided regulation had a significant positive moderating effect between traditional farming cultural identity and straw returning technology adoption behavior, but publicity and education did not show a significant moderating effect. The traditional farming cultural identity had a significant positive effect on the older-generation farmers′ adoption of straw returning technology, but had a limited effect on the newer-generation farmers. At the same time, the traditional farming cultural identity had a significant positive impact on the adoption of straw returning technology by large-scale farmers, but the impact on the behavior of small-scale farmers was not obvious. Based on this, the paper put forward countermeasures and suggestions such as strengthening the protection and inheritance of traditional farming culture, promoting the utilization of straw returning by traditional farming culture protection, and strengthening the differentiated construction of environmental regulatory system.
  • Agro-pastoral economy
    JIANG Gending, LIU Xingyu, LIU Xuelei
    Modern Agriculture. 2025, 50(4): 26-37.
    This paper took the development level of smart agriculture and tourism in Hunan Province as the research object, selected 18 indicators to construct a coupling coordination level evaluation system, and used the entropy weight method, coupling coordination degree model, gray correlation method, etc. to analyze the coupling coordination development level and temporal evolution of smart agriculture and tourism in Hunan Province from 2014 to 2023. The results showed that: the weights of the gross output value of agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and fishery, the number of undergraduate agronomy graduates in colleges and universities, and the agricultural insurance premium income ranked among the top three in the smart agriculture index, while the weights of international tourism income, the proportion of added value of tourism and related industries to regional GDP, and the number of travel agencies ranked high in the tourism index. From 2014 to 2023, the coupling coordination degree of smart agriculture and tourism in Hunan Province increased from "the serious imbalance" in 2014 to "the primary coordination" in 2023, and the results of industrial integration were remarkable. The comprehensive score of smart agriculture continued to grow from 0.101 to 0.910, and the comprehensive score of tourism peaked at 0.737 in 2019, dropped to 0.240 from 2020 to 2022 due to the pandemic and rebounded to 0.468 in 2023(among them, the per capita consumption expenditure on education, culture and entertainment and agricultural insurance premium income of rural residents played the strongest driving role in tourism). The coupling coordination level of smart agriculture and tourism showed a trajectory of "fluctuating rise-decline due to the pandemic impact-recovery and improvement", at this stage, it has entered "the primary coordination" stage, indicating that there was always a win-win relationship between smart agriculture and tourism in the development process. In the tourism industry, the number of A-level tourist attractions, the number of travel agencies, and the proportion of added value of tourism and related industries to regional GDP had a significant role in supporting smart agriculture. Therefore, it is recommended to strengthen the deep integration of "smart agriculture + tourism" by leveraging the leading role of smart agriculture, establishing an "international agricultural tourism brand" cultivation mechanism, and activating the potential of gray correlation analysis. These measures will further optimize the industrial coordination mechanism, and help rural revitalization and high-quality development of the regional economy.
  • Agro-pastoral economy
    JIFU Dazi, XIONG Yixuan, CHANG Qian, WANG Huan
    Modern Agriculture. 2025, 50(3): 21-31.
    Enhancing the development level of the new quality rural productive forces in counties is a key path to promote the modernization of agriculture and rural revitalization in Chengdu, a mega-city in China. Based on the county statistical data from 2011 to 2022, the article conducted an in-depth study on the development level of the new quality rural productive forces, regional differences, and spatial and temporal evolution characteristics in counties of Chengdu, by using the entropy value method, the Dagum Gini coefficient method, the Kernel density estimation, and the spatial Markov chain. The results showed that, from 2011 to 2022, the development level of the new quality rural productive forces in counties of Chengdu exhibited an upward trend, however, the development of different functional subdivisions was unbalanced, presenting the trend of "East>South>West>North". The overall difference was fluctuating downward, inter-regional differences were the main source, with the average value of the Gini coefficient for some inter-regional comparisons exceeding 0.150, restricting the synergistic development. From the point of view of spatial and temporal evolution, the development level was increasing, and the dynamic differentiation was obvious, the absolute gap between counties was widening, spatial development inertia was strong, and cross-type transfer was difficult. Accordingly, it is recommended to cultivate new agricultural management subjects, strengthen the agricultural technology extension system, optimize agricultural policy support, strengthen the foundation of factor support, and deeply empower digital agricultural development to promote the high quality development of new quality rural productive forces in counties of Chengdu.
  • 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.
  • Ruarl revitalization
    DU Weixuan, LIANG Peng
    Modern Agriculture. 2025, 50(4): 1-10.
    Rural ecological revitalization plays an important role in the rural revitalization strategy. The government empowered rural enterprises from three dimensions such as the institution, the technology and the culture in order to promote their green transformation and achieve rural ecological revitalization. The paths for the government to empower rural enterprises to participate in rural ecological revitalization included: promoting the government′s institutional empowerment of rural enterprises——issuing and implementing rural ecological environment standards, relevant punishment policies for rural enterprises′ pollution behaviors, a green financial support policy system for rural enterprises, market principles for the promotion and application of rural environmental protection technology, building a socialized service platform for rural enterprises to implement green production and operation activities, and promoting the legalization of green regulatory policies and measures for rural enterprises; promoting the government′s technological empowerment of rural enterprises——encouraging and guiding rural enterprises to adopt green technologies and pursue park-based development; promoting cultural empowerment of rural enterprises by the government——cultivating the awareness of green production and operation of rural enterprises, creating a green corporate culture.
  • Agro-pastoral economy
    ZHENG Junchuan, TU Pingping, CHEN Huilun
    Modern Agriculture. 2025, 50(5): 30-44.
    Cultivating new quality productive forces of grain is an important measure to build a modern agricultural country and lay the foundation for food security. Based on the panel data of 31 provinces in China (excluding Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan) from 2013 to 2024, empirical methods such as entropy method, Dagum Gini coefficient, Kernel density estimation, ArcGIS, and obstacle model were used to systematically study the development level, regional differences, spatial and temporal evolution and obstacle factors of China′s new quality productive forces of grain. The results showed that: China′s new quality productive forces of grain had steadily improved, but the overall level of development was weak and the growth rate was slow; the development level of new quality productive forces of grain in the three major grain-producting functional areas was the main production area > the main sales area>the production and sales balance area, the development level of new quality productive forces of grain in the three major geographical locations was eastern > central > western; the new quality productive forces of grain in China showed a slow and progressive evolution trend in time sequence, and the spatial distribution showed a better evolution trend in the eastern region, while the evolution process in the central and western regions was relatively slow; the intensity of agricultural research funding, the proportion of rural residents receiving higher education, the per capita electricity consumption in rural areas, and the per capita grain output were the main obstacle factors that restrict the improvement of new quality productive forces of grain. Based on this, measures such as strengthening agricultural technology support, cultivating high-quality "new farmers", promoting good farmland and laws, and implementing differentiated development were proposed to provide theoretical guidance for promoting the coordinated development of new quality productive forces of grain in various regions.
  • Agro-pastoral economy
    SHI Wei, SUN Xin
    Modern Agriculture. 2025, 50(5): 45-57.
    Safeguarding food security is a critical priority in advancing the Chinese path to modernization. This study employed provincial panel data covering 30 Chinese provinces (excluding the Tibet Autonomous Region, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan) from 2013 to 2023 and adopted multi-period difference-in-differences (DID) and mediation effect models to explore the impact of policy-based agricultural insurance on food security. The findings were as follows: policy-based agricultural insurance significantly enhanced food security. The results remained valid after parallel trend tests, placebo tests, heterogeneous treatment effect estimation and exclusivity tests. The new quality rural productive forces served as a key mechanism through which such insurance promoted food security. The heterogeneity analysis results indicated that in the eastern region, policy-based agricultural insurance significantly enhanced food security. In contrast, in the central, western, and northeastern regions, policy-based agricultural insurance had no significant impact on food security. Moreover, in areas with high natural disaster risks, the food security assurance effect of policy-based agricultural insurance was stronger than in areas with low natural disaster risks. Therefore, the scope of implementation and insurance objects under the policy-based agricultural insurance program should be further expanded. By vigorously developing the new quality rural productive forces and tailoring policy-based agricultural insurance to local conditions. Based on variations in natural geographical locations and natural disaster risks to enhance its role in safeguarding food security.
  • Agro-pastoral economy
    ZHOU Liping, WEI Siqi, HU Sihan, SU Hong
    Modern Agriculture. 2025, 50(5): 58-72.
    As a pivotal support for agricultural and rural modernization with Chinese characteristics, the digital village strategy necessitates significant research on its developmental trajectory and spatial patterns. This study constructed an indicator system to assess digital village construction levels and employed a comprehensive methodology,including the CRITIC-entropy weight combined TOPSIS model, Dagum Gini coefficient decomposition, Kernel density estimation, spatial Markov chains, σ-convergence tests, and spatial β-convergence analysis,to investigate the sources of regional disparities, dynamic evolution patterns, and convergence characteristics of digital village development across 30 Chinese provinces (excluding the Tibet Autonomous Region, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan) from 2018 to 2022. And revealed the spatial differentiation pattern and dynamic evolution mechanism of digital village development. The results showed that: China′s digital village construction levels demonstrated a year-on-year increasing trend, exhibiting an overall spatial pattern of "high in the east and central regions, low in the west and northeast regions". There were significant regional disparities in China′s digital village construction levels, showing an overall upward trend, with inter-regional differences being the primary source. Both at the national level and in the four major regions, digital village construction levels displayed the characteristics of "level improvement and expansion of absolute disparities". Accordingly, it is essential to adhere to digital-driven development and regional coordination as two core pillars, accelerate the advancement of digital village construction and cross-regional resource integration, and strive to enhance rural modernization levels and regional coordinated development capabilities.
  • Agro-pastoral economy
    ZHOU Zhande, XIE Yanming, HAO Mengyu
    Modern Agriculture. 2025, 50(4): 19-25.
    Enhancing farmers′ willingness to continue grain production is fundamental to ensuring national food security and maintaining social stability. This study focused on the relationship between land transfer contracts and farmers′ willingness to sustain grain production. Based on survey data from 477 grain-producing households across six provinces collected by the "National Rural Management Patterns" project team, a binary Logit regression model was employed to analyze the impact of land transfer contracts on farmers′ willingness to continue grain cultivation. The results indicated that: the standardization of land transfer contracts was significantly positively correlated with farmers′ willingness to continue grain production, and the signing of standardized and favorable contracts could effectively enhance this willingness. Conversely, the compensatory nature of land transfer contracts was negatively correlated with farmers′ willingness to continue grain production. The existence of land transfer rents will lead to an increase in the overall cost of grain cultivation, which will weaken farmers′ willingness to continue grain production. Additionally, farmers′ occupational differentiation moderated their sensitivity to contract characteristics, full-time farmers who were highly dependent on land income were more sensitive to the characteristics of land transfer contracts, while part-time farmers with diversified income sources showed relatively weaker sensitivity. Therefore, it is recommended to improve the relevant laws and regulations on land transfer contracts to strengthen the guarantee of contract stability, enhance guidance on land transfer rents to reasonably regulate rental levels, raise farmers′ awareness of land transfer contracts, and establish a linkage mechanism between land transfer contracts and government subsidies.
  • 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
    HUANG Shana, WU Liwen, HE Tingyi, GAO Hangfei
    Modern Agriculture. 2025, 50(3): 51-59.
    Under the background of the rapid development of the dairy cattle farming industry in Inner Mongolia, scientifically evaluating production efficiency and cost-benefit performance has great significance.It helps clarify the distribution of benefits across different farming scales, and enhances resource allocation efficiency. This study used cost-benefit data from dairy cattle farming in Inner Mongolia, applying data envelopment analysis(DEA) to measure production efficiency and ANOVA to analyze differences in the cost-profit ratios. The results showed that, from 2012 to 2023, the production efficiency of dairy cattle farming in Inner Mongolia exhibited a fluctuating trend, with an average comprehensive efficiency of 0.858, pure technical efficiency of 0.895, and scale efficiency of 0.956. Thus it could be seen the comprehensive efficiency and pure technical efficiency of large-scale farms were significantly higher than medium-scale farms, and scale efficiency was significantly higher than small-scale farms. The average cost-profit ratio was 5.538% for small-scale farms, 10.781% for medium-scale farms, and 23.946% for large-scale farms, with large-scale farms significantly outperforming than the other two. There was a significant positive correlation between production efficiency and the cost-profit ratio.On the basis of achieving a high level of scale efficiency, improving pure technical efficiency is the key to enhancing overall efficiency in dairy cattle farming in Inner Mongolia. It is recommended that policies be implemented to guide small-scale farmers to moderately expand their farming scale, support medium-scale farms in adopting advanced technologies to improve pure technical efficiency, and help large-scale farms optimize operations at scale management and resource allocation, thereby achieving coordinated improvement in production efficiency and cost-profit ratios and promoting high-quality development of the dairy industry in Inner Mongolia.
  • Rural revitalization
    LU Qianqian
    Modern Agriculture. 2025, 50(3): 1-11.
    Based on the panel data of 280 cities in China from 2000 to 2022, this article took the demonstration cities of "Broadband China" as quasi-natural experiments and used a multi-period difference-in-differences(DID) model to evaluate the impact and mechanisms of digital infrastructure construction on farmers′ income growth. The research found that, the construction of digital infrastructure significantly promoted farmers′ income growth, and this conclusion still held true after a series of robustness tests. Further analysis revealed that, the construction of digital infrastructure promoted farmers′ income growth by enhancing agricultural production efficiency, increasing non-agricultural employment for farmers, and optimizing the rural industrial structure. The income-increasing effect of digital infrastructure construction on farmers was more obvious in the eastern region and areas where farmers had a higher level of education. Based on these conclusions, suggestions were proposed to strengthen rural digital infrastructure, encourage farmers to seek employment and start businesses through multiple channels, and give full play to the role and effect of digital infrastructure in increasing farmers′ income.
  • Ecological and environmental protection
    LIU Jiangyuan, ZHANG Jing, WEI Xiudian
    Modern Agriculture. 2025, 50(4): 93-112.
    With the deepening of the Western Development Strategy and comprehensive rural revitalization by China, it is urgent to scientifically quantify the level of agricultural net carbon sink, providing support for the development of green and low-carbon agriculture and the construction of ecological compensation mechanisms. The study took 12 provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities in Western China from 2014 to 2023 as the research area, to calculate agricultural net carbon sink. On this basis, methods such as kernel density estimation, gravity model, Moran's index, Dagum Gini coefficient, and multiple linear regression model were used to systematically explore the spatiotemporal evolution characteristics and influencing factors of agricultural net carbon sink. The research showed that: the overall level of agricultural net carbon sink in Western China had shown a fluctuating upward trend, and the regional carbon sequestration effect continued to be prominent; the spatial connectivity of total agricultural net carbon sink had significantly increased, and the gravity network showed a significant spatial differentiation feature of "sparse in the west and dense in the east"; agricultural net carbon sink showed a significant positive spatial correlation, but there was a spatial differentiation feature of core diffusion and edge lock-in coexisting; the overall Gini coefficient showed a fluctuating downward trend, and intra-regional disparities were the main contributor to regional differences; the structure of farmland utilization, the intensity of agricultural fiscal expenditure, and the internal industrial structure of agriculture had a significant positive driving effect on the formation of agricultural net carbon sink. Based on this, the following measures were proposed, optimize the agricultural production structure and reduce the intensity of carbon source emissions, strengthen regional collaboration mechanisms and solve the problem of spatial imbalance; increase policy support and enhance the capability to drive carbon sequestration, promote technological innovation and application, and enhance carbon sink monitoring capabilities.
  • Agro-pastoral economy
    HUANG Yu
    Modern Agriculture. 2025, 50(4): 49-58.
    New-type agricultural laborers′ green entrepreneurship provides significant practical exploration for advancing the green transformation of agriculture, and analyzing the process and internal logic of their green entrepreneurship is of practical significance. Based on the successful case of new-type agricultural laborers′ returning to hometowns for entrepreneurship to promote agricultural green development in G County, Yibin City, the practical mechanisms of new-type agricultural laborers′ green agricultural entrepreneurship were explored, and effective paths for advancement were proposed through investigation and research. The study was found that: local sentiment and resource accumulation, local support and agricultural technology empowerment, as well as entrepreneurial resilience and innovative management were indispensable supportive guarantees and core drivers for new-type agricultural laborers to promote green agricultural development. Measures should be taken to encourage new-type agricultural laborers to enhance their comprehensive abilities, improve the construction of supporting service systems, and refine policies for securing essential elements, etc.,facilitating their engagement in the green transformation and development of agriculture.
  • Agro-pastoral economy
    ZHENG Fangfang, SUN Qin
    Modern Agriculture. 2025, 50(4): 38-48.
    Agricultural technological innovation is the key engine for the development of new quality rural productive forces. Based on the TOE framework, this study took 38 agricultural listed companies in Shanghai and Shenzhen A-share markets from 2021 to 2023 as the research object, and systematically explored the synergistic mechanism of 7 conditional variables including technological R&D capability, technological R&D investment, and the comprehensive performance of enterprises in environmental, social, and corporate governance (corporate ESG performance) on the technological innovation of agricultural enterprises by fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA). The study showed that: agricultural enterprise technology innovation was the result of multi-factor synergistic effect, and there was no necessary condition; there were two typical models to achieve a high level of technological innovation,namely, "ESG-subsidy-led" and "technology investment-regulation-driven", the former took ESG performance and government subsidies as core conditions,while the latter highlighted the synergistic effect of technological R&D investment, environmental regulation and big data industry development; corporate ESG performance and government subsidies showed the characteristics of high intensity and high consistency, and there was substitutability under specific conditions. Based on this, it is suggested that the agricultural enterprises integrate technological R&D capabilities, ESG system construction and digital transformation to build an innovation management system, and choose a technology innovation-driven path that is suitable for their own development by using the "ESG-subsidy-led" and "technology investment-regulation-driven" modes; the government establish a "subsidy + tax reduction and exemption + R&D interest discount" policy to promote the development of the big data industry and improve intellectual property protection, so as to provide theoretical basis and practical reference for the independent technological innovation and the development of new quality rural productive forces in China.
  • Agro-pastoral economy
    XU Juan, YIN Shi, LI Yibo, WANG Zhuo
    Modern Agriculture. 2025, 50(5): 73-85.
    Eggs play an important role in enriching the "vegetable basket" of people′s lives and meeting daily nutritional elements. It not only diversify dining table choices but also play a crucial role in supplying key nutrients. Based on 253 samples from Hebei Province, andused structural equation model (SEM) to test the rationality of the theoretical model of brand egg premium payment willingness and premium payment behavior, tested the stability of the model by gender grouping,inorder to verified the stability of the theoretical model in different gender groups. The results showed that: in the overall sample, the path coefficients of brand trust on premium payment willingness and premium payment willingness on premium payment behavior were significantly positive, indicating that brand trust could strengthen consumers′ premium payment willingness, and premium payment willingness had a positive effect on premium payment behavior. When the household income variable was introduced, the path coefficients of household income on brand trust and premium payment behavior were significantly positive, indicating that the willingness to pay a premium was the dominant factor affecting premium payment behavior. In the subgroup sample, the path coefficients of household income on brand trust and brand trust on the premium payment willingness were significantly positive for both male and female. The promoting effect of premium payment willingness on premium payment behavior was stronger in males than in females, and it was more difficult for females to convert their willingness into payment behavior. However, for the path of household income on premium payment behavior, the path coefficient for males was not significant, which was related to the roles played in the family by different genders and the sensitivity of different genders to market price change trends. Based on the above analysis, policy recommendations are proposed to establish emotional brand connections, strengthen consumers′ purchasing awareness; emphasize scenario-based consumption to convert willingness to pay into actual payment behavior; and adopt multiple measures to build brand loyalty, continuously reinforcing consumers′ premium payment behavior. These efforts aim to further promote the market-oriented development of branded eggs and contribute regional strength to the growth of China′s branded egg industry.
  • Agro-pastoral economy
    LIU Yi, WANG Yunfei, LI Xinyi, ZHOU Yang
    Modern Agriculture. 2025, 50(5): 86-96.
    The promotion of digital rural governance is of great significance for achieving "strong agricultural sector, a beautiful countryside, and well-off farmers". Based on survey data from 1 020 rural households in Shandong Province,this paper applied the Probit model to conduct an empirical analysis of the factors that influence farmers′ willingness to participate and their behavioral responses in digital rural governance. The research findings indicated that: the older the farmers were and the higher their perceived risks, the lower their willingness to participate in digital rural governance and their corresponding behavioral responses; due to the relatively high level of education among farmers, internal factors such as perceived usefulness, ease of understanding, and value of digital governance, as well as external environmental characteristics, would all significantly enhance farmers′ willingness to participate in digital rural governance and their behavioral responses; farmers′ willingness to participate in digital rural governance could drive their engagement in digital Party-mass education, digital village affairs management, and digital democratic supervision.Therefore, to facilitate the transformation of farmers′ willingness to participate in digital rural governance into actual behavioral responses, the following measures should be implemented: strengthen training on the construction and application of digital infrastructure, and establish age-appropriate and localized service mechanisms; expand participation channels for digital rural governance by leveraging village-level community organizations, and cultivate an atmosphere for digital governance; build a multi-stakeholder collaboration mechanism, and a data feedback incentive system; promote the efficient conversion of farmers′ willingness into actions,thereby improving the effectiveness of digital rural governance.
  • Ruarl revitalization
    FENG Chunyan, LI Na
    Modern Agriculture. 2025, 50(4): 11-18.
    Rural characteristic industries are an important way to promote rural revitalization and sustained income growth of farmers. In recent years, Laixi City of Qingdao has vigorously developed the fruit characteristic industry, becoming a well-known northern fruit base in China, which has played an important role in increasing farmers′ income and making them rich. Based on the perspective of internal and external embedding, this paper conducted in-depth research on relevant government departments, villages and main bodies engaged in the fruit industry in Laixi City, systematically sorted out the development conditions of the fruit characteristic industry, constructed a theoretical framework of "external embedding - internal response - wealth-creating transformation", and analyzed its wealth-creating mechanism and development path. The study found that: the successful cultivation of rural characteristic industries requires the combination of effective actions by grassroots governments and the stimulation of rural endogenous driving forces. Specifically, it is reflected in the collaborative interaction between external government embedding (policy guidance, public welfare service support, facility guarantee) and internal rural embedding (cognition and relationships within the industry, rural grassroots organizations). The transformation path of its wealth-creating mechanism is manifested in activating various rural resources by improving resource utilization efficiency, realizing value enhancement through the premium effect of brands and quality, and achieving benefit sharing through multiple links and business formats derived from the industrial chain.
  • Agro-pastoral economy
    JIA Yunyi, LIU Yongping, LIU Yuchun
    Modern Agriculture. 2025, 50(4): 73-82.
    With the continuous implementation of inclusive finance and grassland subsidy rewards policies, herders′ incomes have risen, drivinen increased demand for household financial asset allocation. However, herder households still face prominent problems in financial asset selection, including limited financial product diversity in pastoral areas and homogenized asset selection behavior. Therefore, based on field research data on the financial assets of herder households, this article employed structural equation modeling to analyze the factors influencing their asset selection behavior. The research indicated that: household structure and economic characteristics had a significant positive effect on risky and stable investment behaviors, with economic characteristics had a greater effect on stable investments than on risky investment behavior; behavioral characteristics had a significant positive effect on risky investment behavior, but had no significant effect on stable investment behavior. Accordingly, recommendations are proposed to enhance differentiated financial education, enrich the supply of financial products, strengthen household economic capacity, and improve the financial service system in pastoral areas. These measures aimed to optimize herder households financial asset selection behavior, and support sustainable income growth for herders.
  • Agro-pastoral economy
    ZHU Lihua, NIE Xintian, CHEN Lihong, GUO Hanxin, ZHAO Xinyu, PEI Qingbao
    Modern Agriculture. 2025, 50(4): 83-92.
    As an important agricultural production area in China, the dynamic correlation between runoff and crop yield in Ganjiang River Basin is of crucial importance for the sustainable development of regional agriculture. Based on the runoff and related data of rice and citrus yields in Ganzhou, Ji′an, and Nanchang from 2000 to 2023, this article used descriptive statistical analysis and correlation matrix analysis to empirically study the multivariate causal relationship; and took the time delay terms of river runoff and rice citrus yield as independent variables, with using multivariate time series regression, deeply discussed the dynamic response relationship between river runoff in Ganjiang River Basin and rice and citrus yields in Ganzhou, Ji′an, and Nanchang. The results showed that: there was a significant correlation between the runoff of rivers in Ganjiang River Basin and rice and citrus yields, represented by the runoff of Nanchang; the runoff of rivers in Ganjiang River Basin exhibited significant periodic changes, which significantly affected rice and citrus yields in this region. According to the empirical analysis results,it is predicted that citrus yield in Ji′an will tend to stabilize in the future, while rice and citrus yields in Ganzhou and Nanchang will show a relatively slight downward trend.
  • Ecological and environmental protection
    NIU Yawen, XIN Qiao, XU Zhiyong, HUANG Sicheng
    Modern Agriculture. 2025, 50(3): 105-112.
    The value accounting of ecological products has great guiding significance for the establishment of ecological compensation mechanism, the realization of ecological product value, and regional sustainable development. Taking the specific geographical unit of the Pingle section of the Li River Basin as the research area, the opportunity cost method, land use transfer matrix, and value equivalent model were used to explore the cost of ecological product protection and development, as well as the ecosystem service value(ESV), so as to reflect the value of its ecological products. The results showed that, from 2017 to 2022, the total value of the cost of ecological product protection and development for the Pingle section of the Li River Basin was approximately 1.048 billion yuan, with an average annual value of 175 million yuan for protection and development. Among them, the direct cost over the six years was 1.017 billion yuan, and the opportunity cost was 31 million yuan. During the study period of the Pingle section of the Li River Basin, the areas of forest land, orchard land, construction land, and water area increased, while the areas of other land types decreased. The main transfer type was the conversion of cultivated land into orchard land. The ESV of the Pingle section of the Li River Basin showed a trend of "decrease-increase-decrease". The total ESV increased from 8.021 billion yuan in 2017 to 8.500 billion yuan in 2022, and the average annual ESV was 8.356 billion yuan, presenting a spatial pattern of “high in the periphery and low in the middle”. The accounting results can reflect the value of ecological products in the Pingle section of the Li River Basin, providing a basis for balancing regional ecological protection and economic development, and realizing the value of ecological products.
  • Agro-pastoral economy
    YUAN Shiyi
    Modern Agriculture. 2025, 50(3): 95-104.
    To gain an in-depth understanding and enhance the adaptability and sustainable development of agriculture in China, this article employed the agricultural resilience index, Theil index, and the factor detection function of a geographical detector to analyze the evolutionary characteristics and driving factors of agricultural resilience in China. The study found that, the evolution of agricultural resilience in China generally showed a fluctuating upward trend, with significant regional differences and stage-specific characteristics. The proposal of supply-side structural reforms and the new economic normal provided institutional guarantees for the sustainable development of agriculture. The improvement of agricultural resilience in the central and western regions reflected the effectiveness of policy support and infrastructure enhancements, while the decline in agricultural resilience in the northeastern region highlighted the constraints posed by a singular industrial structure and ecological environmental issues on agricultural development. The decomposed interval contribution rate showed a declining trend, with the intra-regional contribution rate being the main reason for differences in agricultural resilience. The spatial distribution pattern of agricultural resilience was gradually shifting from positive clustering to negative clustering, unaffected by the direct influence and homogenization trend of neighboring areas. The agricultural resilience in China has basically formed a multi-layered, multi-dimensional pattern based on locational factors and ecological environment, with policy systems as the pathway, and production efficiency and technological innovation as key factors.
  • Agro-pastoral economy
    XIONG Xiaolei, ZHANG Huifang
    Modern Agriculture. 2025, 50(3): 12-20.
    Industrial innovation is an important direction and inevitable choice for promoting the high-quality development of rural industries in the era of digital economy. Drawing on industrial economic theories, this paper constructed a mechanism model for the role of industrial innovation in the high-quality development of the tea industry, and defined this development from the perspective of the digital economy. Employing a multinomial logistic model and 336 samples of data from tea enterprises and tea farmers through stratified random sampling, a systematic theoretical and empirical analysis was systematically conducted from five innovation dimensions of market, technology, product, organization, and resource allocation. The results showed that, the brand innovation, variety innovation, processing innovation, institutional innovation, and production factor integration innovation all had positive impacts on the high-quality development of the tea industry, and were significant factors affecting the high-quality development of the tea industry. According to the influence coefficient values of the model, institutional innovation(3.662) exerted the greatest influence on the high-quality development of the tea industry by optimizing the industry-university-research collaboration mechanism. Production factor integration innovation(3.557), which promoted the efficient allocation of land and capital, had the next most significant impact. Variety innovation(2.197) and brand innovation(1.549) emerged as major influencing factors by enhancing unit yield levels and product premium, respectively. The impact of processing innovation(1.068) was relatively weak. Based on this, it is recommended to strengthen institutional innovation, focus on brand building, and optimize factor allocation to accelerate the realization of the high-quality development of the tea industry.
  • Agro-pastoral economy
    WANG Lu, XIE Meiying, MA Yanan
    Modern Agriculture. 2025, 50(3): 32-40.
    Rural households hold significant potential for tourism consumption. Promoting tourism consumption of rural households is an important driving force for expanding domestic demand and maintaining stable growth. This paper constructed a pooled cross-sectional dataset by using data from China family panel studies(CFPS) in 2014, 2016, 2018, 2020, and 2022, employed a two-way fixed effects model and mediating effect model to explore the direct impact of internet use on tourism consumption of rural households and the mediating effects of human capital and social capital. The result showed that, internet use had a significant positive impact on the increase of tourism consumption of rural households, human capital and social capital had mediating effects on the relationship between internet use and tourism consumption of rural households, with social capital having a greater mediating effect. The heterogeneity analysis indicated that, internet use had a stronger promoting effect on tourism consumption of rural households in eastern regions, those with non-agricultural employment and higher income levels. Therefore, efforts should be made to actively promote the construction of digital villages to increase the internet penetration rate in rural areas, establishing a digital literacy cultivation system and improve the mechanism for accumulating social capital, accurately identifing different levels of consumer groups to implement differentiated tourism product supply.
  • Agro-pastoral economy
    Surigu, DU Fulin
    Modern Agriculture. 2025, 50(3): 41-50.
    The enhancement of herders′ willingness to reduce livestock plays a crucial role in the effective implementation of grassland ecological protection policies. Based on planned behavior theory, this article used the micro-data of 412 herders in 5 pastoral banners and counties of Chifeng City, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, and employed a structural equation model to deeply analyze the influence of herders′ behavioral attitudes, subjective norms, and perceived behavioral control on their willingness to reduce livestock. The results showed that, herders′ behavioral attitudes, subjective norms, and perceived behavioral control all had a significant positive impact on herders′ willingness to reduce livestock. The impact of behavioral attitudes on herders′ willingness to reduce livestock was greater than perceived behavioral control and subjective norms. The impact of perceived behavioral control on herders′ willingness to reduce livestock was greater than subjective norms. There was an interactive relationship among behavioral attitudes, subjective norms, and perceived behavioral control. The results of multi-group analysis showed that, the grassland area did not have a moderating effect on the influence of different paths on herders′ willingness to reduce livestock, but its role varied among different groups. Accordingly, suggestions are put forward, including strengthening policy promotion to improve grassland protection awareness, optimizing subsidy policies to incentivize herders′ livestock reduction behavior, strengthening technical training to broaden their income channels, and improving the supervision system to build a solid ecological security barrier.
  • Agro-pastoral economy
    CAI Shuqing, FENG Mei
    Modern Agriculture. 2025, 50(3): 60-70.
    Withdraw from homesteads, as a strategic decision related to social stability and rural revitalization, is of great significance for solving the waste of rural land resources, revitalizing and reusing idle homestead resources. Based on the survey data of 545 farmers in Yujiang District, Yingtan City, Jiangxi Province, according to the social ecosystem theory, this paper adopted regression analysis and fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis(fsQCA), and constructed analysis framework from three dimensions of value perception, social capital, and government regulation, to explore the influencing factors of farmers′ willingness to withdraw from homesteads. The combination perspective was used to empirically explore the effect of interaction between value perception, social capital, and government regulation on farmers′ willingness to withdraw from homesteads. The research found that, value perception, social capital, and government regulation could all significantly increase farmers′ willingness to withdraw from homesteads, perceived economic value was a necessary condition for farmers to have a high willingness to withdraw from homesteads. There were four combination paths that led to farmers′ high willingness to withdraw from homesteads, which could be classified into three types, the joint driving type of social trust and constrained government regulation, the joint driving type of social participation and perception of social value, and the driving type of incentive government regulation. The results indicated that, there were multiple ways to enhance farmers′willingness to withdraw from homesteads under different combinations of antecedent conditions. Local governments had two characteristics of value rationality and instrumental rationality when carrying out the work of withdrawing homesteads. Accordingly, the following suggestions are proposed including enhancing farmers′ perception of economic value of withdrawing homesteads, and stimulating their intrinsic motivation to withdraw from homesteads, building a favorable policy environment for farmers to withdraw from homesteads by taking social trust and constrained government regulation as the starting point, paying attention to social participation and the enhancement of perceived social value to strengthen the social responsibility of farmers to withdraw from homesteads, establishing a diversified incentive mechanism for withdrawing homesteads to meet the diverse needs of farmers, building a multi-party collaborative governance system to strengthen the institutional framework for withdrawing homesteads.