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The Influence Paths of Agricultural Mechanization on Green Agricultural Development

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  • Yuanying Chi

    (School of Economics and Management, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, China)

  • Wenbing Zhou

    (School of Economics and Management, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, China)

  • Zhenyu Wang

    (School of Economics and Management, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, China)

  • Yu Hu

    (School of Economics and Management, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, China)

  • Xiao Han

    (State Grid Information & Telecommunication Branch, Beijing 100053, China)

Abstract

For sustainable agricultural development, increasing efforts are put on promoting agricultural mechanization and green agricultural development all over the world. Based on the panel data of Chinese provincial agriculture from 2002 to 2018, the System Generalized Method of Moments model and mediation model are constructed to explore the paths of agricultural mechanization affecting green agricultural development. The results show that agricultural mechanization can not only promote the green agricultural development directly but also indirectly by transferring the agricultural labor force and increasing fertilizer input. However, because of the surge of pesticide demand, agricultural mechanization also leads to serious pollution indirectly. With the development of large-scale agricultural machinery, the direct promotion of agricultural machinery on green agricultural development will be more significant. However, it will be less efficient to substitute more agricultural labor force with machinery power. The problem of pesticide abuse will also become more serious. Therefore, it is important for green agricultural development to encourage human capital investment in agricultural mechanization. In addition, more attention should be paid to improving the input efficiency of fertilizers and pesticides so that agriculture will be sustainable in production and the ecological environment.

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  • Yuanying Chi & Wenbing Zhou & Zhenyu Wang & Yu Hu & Xiao Han, 2021. "The Influence Paths of Agricultural Mechanization on Green Agricultural Development," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(23), pages 1-16, November.
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