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The Role of Soil N 2 O Emissions in Agricultural Green Total Factor Productivity: An Empirical Study from China around 2006 when Agricultural Tax Was Abolished

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  • Xiaocang Xu

    (School of Economics, Chongqing Technology and Business University, Chongqing 400067, China)

  • Lu Zhang

    (Research Center for Economy of Upper Reaches of the Yangtse River/School of Economics, Chongqing Technology and Business University, Chongqing 400067, China)

  • Linhong Chen

    (School of Mathematics and Statistics, Chongqing Technology and Business University, Chongqing 400067, China
    School of Public Administration, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, China)

  • Chengjie Liu

    (School of Economics, Chongqing Technology and Business University, Chongqing 400067, China)

Abstract

The decision in 2006 to abolish the agricultural tax, which had lasted for thousands of years, contributed to the prosperity of agriculture, and with it the growing importance of soil N 2 O emissions in China. However, most of the previous literature ignored soil N 2 O emissions due to their too small share in total agricultural greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. This paper attempts to take soil N 2 O emissions as an important variable in the measurement of agricultural green total factor productivity (AGTFP), which incorporates environmental pollution into the analytical framework of agricultural production efficiency. Three impressive results were found. Firstly, soil N 2 O emissions play an increasingly important role in agricultural GHG emissions. The proportion of soil N 2 O emissions in agricultural GHG emissions increased from 4.52% in 1998 to 4.83% in 2006, and then to 5.36% in 2016. Secondly, the regional difference of soil N 2 O emissions in AGTFP is visible. In 2016, although soil N 2 O emissions accounted for a small proportion (about 5%) of the total agricultural GHG emissions in China, the AGTFP including soil N 2 O emissions was much lower than that excluding soil N 2 O emissions, especially in areas with high agricultural and population density. Finally, over time, soil N 2 O emissions have had an increasing effect on AGTFP. Compared with 1998–2006, the impact of excluding soil N 2 O emissions on AGTFP in 2007–2016 was more evident than that including soil N 2 O emissions.

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  • Xiaocang Xu & Lu Zhang & Linhong Chen & Chengjie Liu, 2020. "The Role of Soil N 2 O Emissions in Agricultural Green Total Factor Productivity: An Empirical Study from China around 2006 when Agricultural Tax Was Abolished," Agriculture, MDPI, vol. 10(5), pages 1-13, May.
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