Abstract
The Yangtze River Economic Belt (YREB) is a major national strategic development area in China, and the development of the YREB will greatly promote the development of the entirety China, so research on its agricultural production efficiency is also of great significance. This paper is committed to studying the agricultural production efficiency of 11 provinces in the YREB and adopts a combination of the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) model and the Malmquist index to make a dynamic and static analysis on the YREB’s agricultural production efficiency from 2010 to 2019. Then, a three-stage DEA Malmquist model that eliminates the factors of random interference and management inefficiency is compared to a model without elimination. The results show that the adjusted technological efficiency changes, technological progress, and total factor productivity increased by −0.1%, 0.24%, and 0.22%, respectively. When comparing these values to the pre-adjustment values, the results indicate that the effect of environmental variables cannot be ignored when studying the agricultural production efficiency of the YREB. At the same time, the differences in the agricultural production efficiency in the YREB are reasonably explained, and feasible suggestions are put forward.
Highlights
China is an advanced agricultural country, as it forms an important foundation for economic development, social progress, and industrial structure adjustment [1]
In order to reflect the agricultural development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt (YREB) more comprehensively and intuitively, based on the static analysis, this paper introduces the Malmquist index method, which deeply analyzes the agricultural development through the changes in the cross-period efficiency value and puts forward targeted countermeasures to promote the balanced development of agriculture in all of the YREB provinces
0.22%, respectively, indicating that the impact of environmental variables cannot be Compared to the first stage, the changes in the technical efficiency, technological ignored and that they will have a great impact on the agricultural production production efficiency efficiency (APE)
Summary
China is an advanced agricultural country, as it forms an important foundation for economic development, social progress, and industrial structure adjustment [1]. Economic Belt (YREB) includes 11 provinces and cities: Shanghai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui, Jiangxi, Hubei, Hunan, Chongqing, Sichuan, Guizhou, and Yunnan (Figure 1) Amongst these provinces/cities, there are great differences in economic development level, industrial structure, and agricultural production efficiency [2,3]. In 2018, the state issued the Strategic Plan for Rural Revitalization (2018–2022) proposal, which was meant to build a modern agricultural industrial system, realize the integrated development of. 2018, the state issued the Strategic Plan for Rural Revitalization (2018–2022) proposal, which was meant to build a modern agricultural industrial system, realize the integrated development of rural primary,and secondary tertiarypromote industries, promote rural strategic transrural primary, secondary tertiary and industries, rural strategic transformation, formation, and enhance the innovation and competitiveness of.
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