IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/spr/endesu/v27y2025i8d10.1007_s10668-024-04770-8.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Does agricultural fiscal policy improve green development in China’s agriculture sector? Evidence from energy and environmental perspectives

Author

Listed:
  • Xiaoli Wu

    (Shaoxing University)

  • Mengyuan Xie

    (Shanghai University of Finance and Economics)

  • Shaojun Xu

    (Wuhan University of Technology)

  • Rilong Fei

    (Wuhan University of Technology)

  • An Pan

    (Zhongnan University of Economics and Law)

Abstract

Green development is of great practical significance to China's sustainable agricultural development. This study aims to evaluate the green development level in China’s agricultural sector and explore the influencing factors of agricultural green development. Based on the data of China’s 30 provinces from 2000 to 2015, we construct the green unified efficiency index by using the non-radial directional distance function method to measure the agricultural green development level, then use the Malmquist decomposition method to explore its dynamic change. Further, we employ the panel threshold regression model to estimate the effects of fiscal expenditure on agricultural green development. The results show that China was staying at a low level of agricultural green development, and extinct regional disparities were found within the sample period. Besides, the impact of fiscal expenditure on agricultural green development had a significant threshold effect with respect to agricultural GDP. Other control factors, including agriculture structure, price of production material, mechanization level, and chemical fertilizer also had significant impacts on the green unified efficiency index. Based on these findings, political suggestions are provided to promote green development in China’s agricultural sector.

Suggested Citation

  • Xiaoli Wu & Mengyuan Xie & Shaojun Xu & Rilong Fei & An Pan, 2025. "Does agricultural fiscal policy improve green development in China’s agriculture sector? Evidence from energy and environmental perspectives," Environment, Development and Sustainability: A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Theory and Practice of Sustainable Development, Springer, vol. 27(8), pages 19945-19967, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:endesu:v:27:y:2025:i:8:d:10.1007_s10668-024-04770-8
    DOI: 10.1007/s10668-024-04770-8
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s10668-024-04770-8
    File Function: Abstract
    Download Restriction: Access to the full text of the articles in this series is restricted.
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1007/s10668-024-04770-8?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to

    for a different version of it.

    More about this item

    Keywords

    ;
    ;
    ;
    ;
    ;

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:spr:endesu:v:27:y:2025:i:8:d:10.1007_s10668-024-04770-8. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.springer.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.