Agricultural Products Logistics Research Articles

Review of Research on the Development of Cold-Chain Logistics of Agricultural Products in China

The growth of cold-chain logistics of agricultural products in China has become a central issue from all walks of life. With the constant growth of the economy and the growth in the standard of living, it has become increasingly prominent as a key link to ensure food safety and enhance the added value of agricultural products. Although the acceleration of urbanization and the trend of consumption upgrading have facilitated the rapid growth of the market needs for cold-chain logistics of agricultural goods, the government has accordingly entered a series of support policies to stimulate the application of modern information technology in cold-chain logistics of farm products, compared to developed nations, a significant disparity exists in terms of infrastructure, technical level, and management system in China. Therefore, it has become urgent to enhance the cold-chain logistics of farm produce in China to strengthen infrastructure construction, enhance the degree of data technology utilization, and facilitate the application of new technologies and models. This paper conducts and analyzes the rising status of cold-chain logistics of agricultural goods nationally and internationally, conducts an in-depth analysis of existing problems by existing scholars, finds out the deep-seated reasons behind it, and points out the direction for the continuous improvement and innovative development of cold-chain logistics of agricultural products in China.

Exploring Symbiosis: Innovatively Unveiling the Interplay between the Cold Chain Logistics of Fresh Agricultural Products and the Ecological Environment

Cold chain logistics are crucial for reducing agricultural product loss, yet the environmental impact of energy and packaging consumption, among others, demands attention, making the search for eco-friendly development modes essential. Based on data from 30 provinces in China from 2015 to 2021, this study analyzes the basic correlation between the development of cold chain logistics of fresh agricultural products (CCLFAP) and the ecological environment (EE) by using a random forest regression model in comparison with the XGBoost model. Correlation heatmaps were used to analyze the relationships between the cold chain logistics of fresh agricultural products and various factors of the ecological environment. The generalized additive model was then used to establish the connection between cold chain logistics and the ecological environment, identifying significant factors impacting EE. The results demonstrate that a higher development level of cold chain logistics corresponds to a better development trend of EE. The economic efficiency and technical aspects of cold chain logistics for fresh agricultural products are closely related to ecological pressures and responses. The number of employees in the logistics industry, the trading volume of fresh agricultural products, the number of refrigerated vehicles, and the capacity of the cold room have significant positive correlations with the ecological environment, while the per capita consumption of fresh agricultural products, the number of cold chain logistics patent applications, and the road density had significant negative correlations with the ecological environment. The effects of the number of cold chain logistics enterprises and the freight turnover of agricultural products transported by the cold chain on the ecological environment fluctuated. These findings contribute to reducing climate and environmental emergencies throughout the life cycle, offering sustainable development solutions for the fresh agricultural product cold chain logistics industry.

Discussion and Analysis of Agricultural Cold Chain Logistics Issues

With the advancement of socialist marketisation, the demand for cold chain logistics for agricultural products is expanding. This not only accelerates the development of cold chain logistics system, but also brings a lot of convenience to the residents' life. This paper takes the current situation of supply and demand of cold chain logistics of agricultural products in China as the starting point, analyses the current problems in the development of cold chain logistics of agricultural products, and puts forward corresponding countermeasures in this regard, with a view to improving the efficiency of cold chain logistics transport in China to meet the daily needs of the people.

Empowering Rural Revitalization: Unleashing the Potential of E-commerce for Sustainable Industrial Integration

AbstractThe rural revitalization strategy has spotlighted the agricultural industry as a pivotal avenue for national development. E-commerce, as a novel business paradigm, presents both opportunities and challenges to this sector’s evolution. This study endeavors to navigate the trajectory of e-commerce within rural revitalization by amalgamating literature review and case analyses. It seeks to uncover the sales channels offered by e-commerce platforms for agricultural products, subsequently elevating the value proposition of these products and propelling rural economic growth. Findings underscore the pivotal role of e-commerce in rural revitalization. Leveraging e-commerce platforms to bolster the agricultural industry presents innovative avenues and strategies. Nonetheless, challenges loom over these platforms, encompassing issues related to agricultural product quality, logistics, and distribution. Thus, a strategic imperative emerges to fortify logistics infrastructure, enhance agricultural product quality, institute robust personnel training initiatives, and catalyze e-commerce advancements to foster the revitalization and expansion of the agricultural sector.

The impact of digital economy development on agricultural carbon emissions——empirical research based on Chinese data

ABSTRACT This study examines the impact of digital economy development on carbon emissions in Chinese agriculture and its underlying mechanisms. Empirical analysis is conducted using panel data from 31 provinces in China for the years 2013 to 2021, employing a fixed-effects model.The study reveals that the development of the digital economy significantly reduces agricultural carbon emissions, with this effect showing a non-linear increasing trend. The impact of digital economy development on agricultural carbon emissions varies with climate types, and the reduction effect is more pronounced in regions with lower rainfall. Furthermore, the development of the digital economy lowers the intensity of agricultural carbon emissions by improving logistics efficiency and promoting industrial upgrading and transformation.This paper provides a theoretical basis and policy recommendations for the nation to reduce agricultural carbon emissions and promote green transformation. It suggests that the government should strengthen support and guidance for the development of the digital economy, actively promote the digitalization of agriculture, including the formulation of differentiated strategies for the development of digital agriculture, improvement of regulations and standards for agricultural product logistics, and enhancement of the application and innovation in smart agriculture.

Research on the Problems and Countermeasures of Agricultural Products Distribution in China Under "Double Carbon" Goal

At the 75th session of the United Nations General Assembly in 2020, China proposed that carbon dioxide emissions should peak before 2030 and strive to achieve carbon neutrality before 2060. The 2022 "Government Work Report" pointed out the orderly promotion of carbon peak and carbon neutrality. This paper analyzes the impact of the "double carbon" target on the logistics distribution of agricultural products, including energy consumption and carbon emissions, and then discusses the existing problems from the aspects of picking, packaging, transportation and storage of agricultural products, such as low logistics distribution efficiency and unreasonable storage methods for waste agricultural products during transportation. As an important link between agricultural production and consumption, agricultural products logistics distribution must adapt to the requirements of dual-carbon goals, optimize logistics distribution mode, improve logistics efficiency, and reduce logistics carbon emissions so as to achieve sustainable development. Therefore, this study selected the problems and countermeasures of agricultural product logistics distribution in our country under the dual carbon goal as the research object in order to provide a reference for promoting green development of agriculture and realizing the dual carbon goal.

Research Hotspots on Fresh Cold Chain Logistics Based on CiteSpace

With the rapid development of today's logistics industry, fresh cold chain logistics, as one of the important branches of the logistics industry, is an important means to ensure the quality and safety of fresh products, and its development has attracted more and more attention. In this paper, 181 papers related to fresh cold chain in Chinese core journals and CSSCI journals from 1998 to 2023 in CNKI database were taken as research objects, and the methods of keyword co-occurrence map, cluster map, and emergent word detection provided by visualization software CiteSpace were used to sort out and summarize the collected data, and explore the research hotspots and frontiers in the field of logistics process of fresh cold chain products. At the same time, China's agricultural product cold chain logistics research groups are in a fragmented state, and distribution mode and fresh e-commerce are the current hot spots of agricultural product cold chain logistics research; At present, there are still problems such as long supply chain, many circulation links, high cost and loss in the cold chain logistics of agricultural products, and in-depth discussions should be carried out from the aspects of intelligent logistics and cold chain logistics in the future.

Comprehensive evaluation for the sustainable development of fresh agricultural products logistics enterprises based on combination empowerment-TOPSIS method.

To solve the problems of environmental pollution and resource waste caused by the rapid development of cold chain logistics of fresh agricultural products and improve the competitiveness of logistics enterprises in the market, a performance evaluation method of cold chain logistics enterprises based on the combined empowerment-TOPSIS was proposed. Firstly, from the five dimensions of cold supply chain capacity, service quality, economic efficiency, informatization degree and development ability, a comprehensive evaluation system of logistics enterprises' sustainable development is constructed, which consists of 16 indicators, such as storage and preservation capacity, distribution accuracy, and equipment input rate. Then, G1 method and entropy weight method are used to calculate the subjective and objective weights of the evaluation indicators, and the combined weights are calculated with the objective of minimizing the deviation of the subjective and objective weighted attributes. Finally, the TOPSIS method is used to calculate the comprehensive evaluation indicators. The results show that the established performance evaluation model can effectively evaluate the performance of fresh agricultural products logistics enterprises and provide theoretical basis for enterprise logistics management.

Simulation Study on the Policy of Coordinated Development of Agriculture and Agricultural Product Logistics in Sichuan Province

This paper utilises the system dynamics theory to develop a simulation model of the agricultural and agricultural product logistics system in Sichuan Province. The coordinated development policy of the agricultural and agricultural product logistics in Sichuan Province is analysed through simulation by adjusting the proportions of investment in the logistics industry, logistics information technology, and agricultural financial input. The study suggests that enhancing investments in logistics industry and logistics information technology leads to an accelerated development in the agricultural product logistics sector, ultimately promoting coordination between the agricultural economy and agricultural product logistics. Moreover, lowering agricultural financial input can lead to more rational allocation and utilization of resources, hence further advancing the coordinated growth of agriculture and agricultural product logistics.

Research on the Development Problems and Strategies of Agricultural Products Logistics under the Background of Rural Revitalization—Taking Lianjiang Red Orange as a Case

Since 2014, the Report on the Work of the Government has mentioned “express delivery” for 10 consecutive years, which indicates the development direction of the express industry. In 2023, the Report on the Work of the Government also specifically mentioned the need to “improve the rural express logistics distribution system”. Improving the rural logistics system is an important measure to promote industrial upgrading, rural consumption, and rural revitalization.China is a major agricultural country, with grain production, cotton production, and tea production ranking first in the world. In recent years, the agricultural product logistics industry has also experienced rapid development. However, the overall development level of the current agricultural product logistics industry is relatively low, manifested in outdated logistics concepts, insufficient application of advanced logistics technology, relatively backward cold chain logistics technology, and a lack of professional logistics talents. These factors constrain the development of agricultural product logistics. Therefore, this article takes the agricultural product of Lianjiang Red Orange as the research object, analyzes the current development status and problems of agricultural product logistics, and proposes corresponding countermeasures and suggestions to improve the development of agricultural product logistics through analysis. The aim is to provide reference for the development of agricultural product logistics in Lianjiang City and provide strong impetus for comprehensively promoting rural revitalization.

Construction of Agricultural Products Logistics Network in Hebei Province Based on Improved Gravity Mode

Solving the problems of “agriculture, rural areas” has always been the top priority of national development work and the focus of social attention. Logistics, as the “third source of income”, can give full play to the role of logistics to enable agricultural products to obtain higher returns in the case of high production. In the context of the increasing demand for high-quality life, it is particularly important to reduce the consumption of agricultural products in the transportation process and ensure the quality of fresh agricultural products. A reasonable logistics network system can effectively reduce costs, save manpower and promote the increase of farmers’ income. Based on the research of factor analysis and gravity model, this paper adopts 11 prefecture-level cities in Hebei Province as research samples, and studies the economic development level of each city in Hebei Province, the scale and level of logistics industry development, the demand degree of agricultural products, and the supply degree of agricultural products as four indicators, and constructs a regional agricultural product logistics quality index system. The logistics quality and logistics gravity of agricultural products were calculated, the results of the model were graded, the regional logistics network of agricultural products was drawn and analyzed based on the logistics gravity strength, and some suggestions were put forward to improve the development of regional logistics network of agricultural products. Based on this, this paper believes that only by vigorously developing the construction of agricultural logistics network system can agriculture get better development, and in promoting the development of agriculture, it can optimize and upgrade the local logistics infrastructure and drive the regional economic development.

The impact of logistic environment and spatial spillover on agricultural economic growth: An empirical study based on east, central and west China.

To vigorously promote the integrated development and mutual adaptation of agriculture and logistics is an important way to realize agricultural modernization and rural revitalization. Along with the policy support of agricultural industry chain and the steady rise of the demand for agricultural products market, the total amount of agricultural product logistics continues to increase, and the growth rate remains stable. With the booming development of "Internet + agriculture" and e-commerce platform, agricultural logistic market welcomes a new round of development opportunities, reaching several trillion yuan. Compared with the developed countries, our agricultural product logistics is still far behind. At present, only 15% of vegetables and fruits and 30% of fresh meat have professional logistic transportation, while most of the rest are still in the state of local and primitive. The gap of logistic environment construction and logistic elements determines the difference in final benefit of agricultural products. The purpose of this study is to find out the influence of logistic elements on regional agricultural economic growth, and whether the influence between neighboring regions presents "the same prosperity", "the same loss" or "sharing weal and woe". Based on the panel data of the statistical yearbook of 31 provinces in China from 2005 to 2020, the spatial Durbin model was constructed under the spatial weight matrix of economic distance and economic geographical distance to conduct empirical analysis, and the internal factors of logistics industry, factor spillover effect and its impact on agricultural economic growth were studied. Results showed that: (1) considering economic distance factor, the spatial coefficient of the time-fixed effects model passed the significance test in eastern China. Considering economic geographic distance factors, the individual and double fixed effect models passed the significance test in central China, and all models passed the significance test in western China. (2) From the perspective of logistic infrastructure, AVLFA, HM, TN and RM had a positive effect on the growth of agricultural economy in eastern China, but LIAV is on the contrary. AVLFA had a positive effect on agricultural economic growth, but TN was on the contrary in central China. In western China, LIAV and TN promoted agricultural economy while HM and RM held back it. From the perspective of the volume of logistics activity, both eastern and central regions did not pass the significance test, but FA was tested by the double fixed effect model and showed negative in western China. From the perspective of control variables, FU, AO and PT all promoted agricultural economy in eastern China, and FU and AO did the same in central and western China. PT was invalid in central regions and hindered agricultural economy in western China, which was different. From the perspective of spatial spillover effect decomposition, the eastern region presents "one prosperity and all prosperity, and sharing weal and woe", while the central and western regions present "one prosperity and all prosperity, and one lost and all lost". At last suggestions as formulating the overall plan for the development of regional logistics, paying attention to regional differences and promoting coordinated development of logistics and agriculture in light of local conditions, and paying attention to the spatial spillover effect of elements were put forward.

MATHEMATICAL APPROACH TO THE FORMATION OF A METHODOLOGICAL BASIS OF ECONOMIC RATIONALITY OF INTERACTION OF ELEMENTS OF THE SYSTEM OF LOGISTICS MANAGEMENT IN AGRICULTURE

The field of managing the logistics of agricultural products under significant dynamic changes in today's conditions requires the formation of new approaches using the possibilities of modern information tools. The article presents a systematic mathematical approach to logistics management in agriculture for conditions with an insignificant level of risk and under conditions of significant threats to the logistics processes of the agricultural industry. The presented study also examines the issue of analyzing the effectiveness of management actions in the logistics process, both operationally and strategically.The developed mathematical approach takes into account a wide range of conditions for carrying out logistics activities - both at a low level of risk in the implementation of the logistics process, and in circumstances of significant threats that lead to the minimization of the reliability of logistics in the agricultural sector. This is especially important today, given the significant level of negative impacts on logistics processes due to military threats. The growth of these influences even leads to the destabilization of the world food market, and the threat of famine in some regions of the world.The proposed mathematical approach takes into account both the emergence of new risks, the significantly increased dynamic nature of the effects on logistics activities in the agricultural sector of the economy, and the traditional specificity of the conditions for the implementation of logistics processes in the agricultural sector. The specificity of logistics management in the agricultural sector is due to the peculiarities of the agricultural production process; properties inherent in agricultural products, conditions of distribution of these products. This determines a wide range of tasks that must be performed by the logistics of the agricultural sector. This, in turn, creates a need for a highly adaptive dynamic approach when forming a set and combination of logistics tasks and goals. Algorithms, tools and methods were specially developed to implement this approach. In particular: the unification of target functions; the approach of flexible adaptive changes in the ranks of target functions to ensure the appropriate level of rationality of logistics process management; a compromise approach in the case of the need to simultaneously achieve a group of set goals or a group of goals; the approach of assessing the strategic impact of a management decision for operating not with static values of parameters, but with their trends over time. In general, this makes it possible to achieve the appropriate level of economic efficiency of agricultural logistics management even with dynamic changes in the conditions of its implementation and to ensure a high level of reliability of the logistics process even with an increase in the level of threats.

Research on the Current Situation and Optimization of Rural Logistics Development in the Post Poverty Alleviation Era

At present, China's poverty alleviation efforts are entering the consolidation and expansion of poverty alleviation achievements. It is necessary to focus on "solving relative poverty", establish a long-term poverty alleviation mechanism, and prevent the occurrence of phenomena such as "returning to poverty after poverty alleviation" and "digital poverty alleviation". For impoverished areas, sustainable and stable agricultural product supply chains are the key to their current development. Rural logistics plays an important role in rural revitalization and rural economic development. Although there has been significant development in rural logistics, there are still problems such as untimely supply dispersion, high logistics costs, inconsistent supply chains, insufficient infrastructure, and the need to improve logistics service levels. This article analyzes the current situation of agricultural product logistics development and proposes optimization suggestions for rural logistics development, in order to establish a complete rural logistics system and establish a new logistics poverty alleviation system.

Sustainable model of agricultural product logistics integration based on intelligent blockchain technology

Agricultural product logistics plays a high role in the development of Chinese economy, which is the most important basic link in the process of agricultural industrialization, scale and modernization. The logistics of agricultural products in China has always been at a low standard of development, slow development or even stagnation. As the most basic and important agricultural product industry in the national economy, the degree and mode of development of agricultural products have a great impact on the development of Chinese economy and people’s quality of living. Therefore, new models and approaches for the construction and development of agricultural product logistics must be actively explored to promote the standardization and scale of China’s agricultural product logistics industry. Therefore, the paper constructed a sustainable model of agricultural products logistics integration based on blockchain technology, and proposed a comprehensive logistics model of agricultural products based on intelligent blockchain, which was expected to provide some help to solve the problems of supply and demand mismatch, quality safety management, agricultural product price fluctuation and other problems in the current agricultural product circulation. The paper first introduced the intelligent blockchain technology and the concept of agricultural product logistics integration, and then constructed a sustainable model of agricultural product logistics integration. The paper gave a general description of the model and conduct comparative experiments on its effectiveness. The paper found that the agricultural product logistics industry based on intelligent blockchain technology could achieved at least 40% of the additional revenue. After verification, the limitations of intelligent blockchain technology were also proposed and corresponding suggestions are given. At the end of this paper, the paper proposed that blockchain technology can realize the information visualization and traceability of the whole life cycle of products, which can effectively solve some new problems in the agricultural supply side structural reform and had broad application prospects.

Research on export logistics of agricultural products in Ukraine during martial law and ensuring food security

Research on export logistics of agricultural products in Ukraine during martial law and ensuring food security

Research on Coordinated Development of Chongqing Agricultural Product E-commerce Logistics Based on System Dynamics Model

At the moment of the rapid development of information society, agriculture is achieving industrial quality growth through the "Internet+" path. Agricultural e-commerce is an important application area. Agricultural e-commerce is a non-linear complex system that involves multiple entities such as trading platforms, trading entities, and farmers. Scientific and technological progress, policy adjustment, and industrial level will have an impact on the agricultural e-commerce industry. The development of the industry requires a systematic analysis of various influencing factors. Based on the in-depth investigation of Chongqing agricultural product e-commerce and logistics, this article uses system dynamics principles to analyze and simulate its internal dynamic mechanism analysis and simulation of the internal dynamic mechanism, and build a coordinated development model of agricultural e-commerce and logistics. Chongqing agricultural product e-commerce and logistics coordinated development system dynamic models, study the way to study the coordinated development of rural e-commerce and logistics, and use Chongqing's relevant data of Chongqing 2015-2020 for empirical simulation analysis. The impact of the influence proposed the effective strategy and method of coordinated development of Chongqing agricultural product e-commerce and logistics. Based on this, this article puts forward countermeasures for the coordinated development of Chongqing's agricultural products e-commerce and logistics, and provides decisions for the development of agricultural product e-commerce development policies for relevant government departments. Based on the development of the stable development of Chongqing agricultural product e-commerce and logistics.

Organization and Implementation of Agricultural Products Logistics and Government Policies in China

The direction of the research is focused on the study of the international experience of organizational and economic support of the logistics of agricultural products and the tools of its state policy. Research methods include the following: problem-oriented method; the method of scientific abstraction, the system method. The results of the study include: the innovative component of the agro-industrial complex enterprises was taken into account, the logistics alliance of agricultural products was developed and institutional mechanisms were formed to save transaction costs, specific measures to strengthen the level of state macro-control of the logistics of agricultural products were considered. A great role is attributed to the organizational support of the logistics of agrarian companies and its state policy. There is a need to form an effective mechanism of state support for the logistics of agricultural producers, taking into account the influence of the market on the logistics of agricultural companies.

Retracted: Application of Data Mining Algorithm in Agricultural Products Logistics Network Planning

Retracted: Application of Data Mining Algorithm in Agricultural Products Logistics Network Planning

Research on Transformation and Upgrading Strategy of Agricultural Products Logistics and Marketing Mode based on "Internet Plus"

The advent of the Internet era, traditional forms of logistics and sales can no longer meet current needs, the network continues to penetrate the real economy, and changes in the market environment are forcing companies to reconfigure their Internet marketing. The "Internet plus" provides new opportunities for the development of agriculture and represents a new direction and trend of modern agricultural development. In the initial stage of China's special agricultural products logistics and marketing model, there are still some problems that need to be improved and solved. This paper discusses the current situation and problems of China's agricultural logistics and marketing development, researches on how to promote the transformation and upgrading of agricultural logistics and marketing mode and optimization strategies under the background of "Internet plus", and proposes some targeted development measures to promote China's rural economic development.