Abstract
Human survival depends on the sustainable development of agriculture. This study constructs a data-driven evaluation and optimization method of agricultural sustainable development capacity, aiming to better cope with challenges such as environmental pollution and excessive consumption of resources and energy, as well as improve agricultural economic level. Further, an evaluation index system was constructed based on comprehensive consideration of energy and resources utilization, environmental pollution, and agricultural economy. After simplifying and integrating the data, a data envelopment analysis model was constructed to quantitatively evaluate the capability for agricultural sustainable development and its changing trend. Moreover, its influencing factors were analyzed from the perspective of input, which provides accurate countermeasures for improving agricultural sustainable development ability, resource utilization efficiency, and process optimization. This study shows the realization process of the aforementioned method for the agricultural development of six cities in northern Anhui from 2010 to 2019. Our results suggest that the sustainable development ability of northern Anhui is weak, but overall, has a good development trend. Based on our results, some countermeasures were proposed to control production scale reasonably, reduce environmental load, and improve resource efficiency, which provides a reference for policymakers to guide and standardize the development of regional agriculture.
Highlights
Agriculture economy is the foundation of national economy and human existence
To address the challenges discussed and fill the existing knowledge gaps, better cope with environmental pollution and excessive consumption of resources and energy, improve the agricultural economy levels, and promote its sustainable development, this study proposed an evaluation and optimization method for regional agricultural sustainable development capacity based on the work by Liu et al [46,47]
Static Discussion on the Ability for Agricultural Sustainable Development in According to the calculation results of average comprehensive technical efficiency (TE) (Figure 4), Huaibei has the highest capability for sustainable development; contrastingly, Suzhou has the weakest capability for sustainable development, which illustrates that the capability for sustainable development of agriculture is not directly proportional to the production scale
Summary
Agriculture economy is the foundation of national economy and human existence. The intention is to focus on the development and innovation of digital agriculture [1,2], promote the optimal allocation of agricultural resources [3], accelerate the optimization of agricultural industrial structures [4], improve the efficiency and competitiveness of agricultural production and promote its sustainable development. It is of great significance to study the capacity for the development of sustainable agriculture in cities in northern Anhui, summarize the laws of agricultural development and the experience of agricultural development in advantageous areas, and identify the shortcomings of agricultural development in areas with weak agricultural production, to effectively allocate agricultural development resources and promote the improvement of capacity for agricultural sustainable development in northern Anhui
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