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  • Agro-pastoral economy
    SHEN Shumin, YANG Yunli, CAO Xia
    Modern Agriculture. 2025, 50(2): 10-18.
    Abstract (251) PDF (10)   Knowledge map   Save
    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
    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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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
    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.
  • 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
    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
    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
    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.
  • 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
    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
    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
    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.