Abstract
Farmers are the key agents who manage land and water. Agriculture Green Development (AGD) requires a transformation in farming from high resource consumption and environmental cost to sustainable intensification with high productivity, high resource use efficiency and low environmental risk. This paper analyzes the public policy challenge of AGD and makes the case for a location-sensitive policy mix made up of regulation, advice provision, voluntarism and targeted incentives. The public agricultural extension service in China is a key resource, but one that requires reorientation and reform with the aim of better balancing high farm productivity with environmental protection.
Highlights
Farmers are the key agents who manage land and water
At local level the education level of extension agents is relatively low, efficiency in input use and environmental protection have been low priorities for advice given in rural areas, and the public agricultural extension service (PAES) remains focused on productivity increase and lacking in strategies to balance this with environmental protection even when appropriate best management practices’ (BMPs) are known and available[16]
Robust and costeffective means for monitoring and enforcement need to be developed, and this could be enhanced by engagement with and participation by the farming community in any given location or region
Summary
Preparation of this paper primarily employed review and analysis of literature and secondary data. The author participated in workshops and conferences with national level scientists and stakeholders
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