Research on the Impact of Agricultural Infrastructure Construction on the High-Quality Agricultural Development Efficiency

Ruilin  Zhong; Huachao  Zha

doi:10.54691/jd13sg02

Authors

Ruilin Zhong
Huachao Zha

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.54691/jd13sg02

Keywords:

Agricultural infrastructure construction; High-quality agricultural development efficiency; Super-efficiency SBM-DEA model; New agricultural productivity; Extension of the agricultural industry chain.

Abstract

Agriculture, as the fundamental pillar industry of the national economy, plays a pivotal role in China's national strategy for the new era. High-quality agricultural development is a core component of this strategy, and enhancing agricultural infrastructure construction is a crucial approach to achieve it. Based on panel data from 30 provinces in China spanning from 2011 to 2023, this paper employs the super-efficiency SBM-DEA model to measure the high-quality agricultural development efficiency. It empirically examines the impact and mechanism of agricultural infrastructure construction on this efficiency. The results indicate that agricultural infrastructure construction significantly enhances the efficiency of high-quality agricultural development. This conclusion remains valid after a series of robustness and endogeneity tests. Agricultural infrastructure construction can improve the high-quality agricultural development efficiency through two mechanisms: enhancing new agricultural productivity and extending the agricultural industry chain. The impact exhibits regional heterogeneity, being more pronounced in the Eastern China, Western China, Northeast China, and Southeast region of the Hu Huanyong Line. Based on these findings, policy recommendations are proposed: further improving agricultural infrastructure construction, continuously fostering new agricultural productivity, promoting the extension of the agricultural industry chain, and leveraging the positive role of agricultural infrastructure construction in Northwest region of the Hu Huanyong Line.

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