Can agricultural technological progress promote China’s interprovincial rural revitalization? an analytical perspective based on agricultural-scale operations

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Can better farm technology lift China's countryside, province by province? Fei Wang, Dong Xue, and Zheyi Yang use farm data from thirty-one provinces spanning the years two thousand seven to two thousand twenty. They measure how much each province's farming output grows beyond its inputs, then model how that progress spreads to neighbors and where its effect turns.

Progress in farm technology did help rural revival overall, though its effect first dipped, then rose. The gains depended on thresholds: farms run at a large enough land scale, and clusters of farm industry, changed how strongly the technology paid off and how far it spilled over. The authors advise guiding land scale and farm clustering to local conditions so the good effects spread widely.

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Source: https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC11623457