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Factors on Spatial Heterogeneity of the Grain Production Capacity in the Major Grain Sales Area in Southeast China: Evidence from 530 Counties in Guangdong Province

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  • Wei Fang

    (College of Economics, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China
    Institute of Agricultural Economic and Information, Guangdong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Guangzhou 510640, China)

  • Heliang Huang

    (College of Economics, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China)

  • Boxi Yang

    (Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University, 8888 University Dr W, Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6, Canada)

  • Qiang Hu

    (College of Ecology, Lishui University, Lishui 323000, China)

Abstract

Grain security is an essential issue for countries across the world. China has witnessed over the last decades not only a rapid growth in the volume of the grain production, but also a divergence in its geographical distributions. Existing studies on the influencing factors of grain production have overlooked thus spatial heterogeneity. This paper investigates the factors that cause the geographical heterogeneity in grain output levels in Guangdong province of China, in terms of land, labor and capital. To address the spatial attenuation effect of the influencing factors, we use the Geographically Weighted Regression (GWR) on samples of different spatial ranges, which include a total of 530 southern counties from 2015 to 2017. The results show that (a) the effect of land endowment on grain output vary across the east and the west, and between coastal and inland areas; (b) the effect of labor endowment on grain output are inconsistent in the sign and magnitude of the estimates across counties; (c) the effect of agricultural capital on grain production shows heterogeneity spatially (across the east and the west) and economically (across developed and less developed regions). We then analyze the potential mechanism behind this spatial heterogeneity, as well as its policy implications.

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  • Wei Fang & Heliang Huang & Boxi Yang & Qiang Hu, 2021. "Factors on Spatial Heterogeneity of the Grain Production Capacity in the Major Grain Sales Area in Southeast China: Evidence from 530 Counties in Guangdong Province," Land, MDPI, vol. 10(2), pages 1-17, February.
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