Agricultural Supply-side Structural Reform Research Articles

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.

Agricultural Supply-Side Structural Reform and Path Optimization: Evidence from China.

The agricultural sector's supply-side reform is fundamental to ensuring food security and social stability. This paper uses a comprehensive analysis method to reflect on China's agricultural reform from 1970 to 2020. We observe that China's agriculture made significant progress before 2020 due to preferential policies and demographic dividends. This production-oriented mode has led to the co-existence of overstocking, the rapid growth of imports, and ecological degradation. A follow-up survey acknowledged that rural complex is a comprehensive social network with substantial radiant effect involving government-sponsored projects, sector-specific programs, corporate and societal assistance. The sustainable development of the rural complex lies in industrial planning, system restructuring, and institutional arrangement. Therefore, this article anchors its system structure under the ESG principle and green development philosophy. It diversifies the agro-economy to advance digitalization and de-carbonization of the rural economy.

The Influence of Converting Food Crops to Forage Crops Policy Implementation on Herbivorous Livestock Husbandry Development—Based on Policy Pilot Counties in Hebei, China

In the context of increasing consumption of herbivorous livestock products, competition between humans and animals for food, and increasing environmental constraints, it is necessary to solve the problem of sustainable development of China’s livestock industry and increase the protection and development of the grassland livestock industry while making good use of production resources in agricultural areas in order to explore the development potential of the herbivorous livestock industry in agricultural areas. The Converting Food Crops to Forage Crops Policy (CFFP), as an important measure of agricultural supply-side structural reform, aims to develop a high-quality forage industry and a high-quality herbivorous livestock industry. However, over the years of policy implementation, few studies have examined the impact effects of the policy on the development of the regional herbivorous livestock industry. To fill this research gap and provide theoretical support for subsequent policy implementation, the study used the synthetic control method to examine the impact of policy implementation on the development of herbivorous livestock production in the pilot counties in Hebei Province from 2010 to 2020. The study discovered that the policy’s implementation encouraged the expansion of herbivorous livestock production in the pilot counties, but the policy’s effects on various regions and livestock species varied due to the influence of local production bases and resource endowments.

The Basic Connotation and Policy Suggestions of Agricultural Supply-side Structural Reform

The Basic Connotation and Policy Suggestions of Agricultural Supply-side Structural Reform

Optimization Analysis of Rural Finance Based on Supply-Side Structural Reform

As the country has been placing greater emphasis on agricultural development, rural finance based on supply-side structural reform has achieved tremendous growth. However, investigations have found that the rural financial market still has problems in its service modes, organizational systems, product innovation, and risk evaluation, thus requiring urgent attention. Therefore, this study analyzes and expounds on these problems from the aforementioned four aspects and proposes the following solutions: encourage the creation of agricultural service institutions, establish and improve the rural financial organization system, vigorously develop new rustic financial products, and strengthen the risk supervision and management of financial markets. Only in this way can the agricultural supply-side structural reform and the innovative development of rural finance be realized.

Increasing multiple cropping for land use intensification: The role of crop choice

Land use intensification increases crop production without reclaiming new cropland from natural ecosystems. In addition to the yield-improving approaches, scientists began to assess the multiple cropping potential as an alternative for intensification. These existing assessments largely focused on the number of multiple cropping frequency (MCF) while ignoring the crop growth duration (GD) required by a complete cropping circle, which may bring uncertainty on the estimates. In this study, we aim to address such uncertainty by comprehensively considering the relation between MCF and GD. Selecting Jinxian county, Jiangxi Province, as a study area, we use time-series remote sensing imageries to observe MCF and GD, and to estimate the region’s annual growing season (GS) by aggregating the crop-specific GDs corresponding to the MCF. We further apply scenario analysis to understand how crop choice. i.e. longer GD v.s. shorter GD, would influence the exploitation of GS and thus the multiple cropping potential. Results show that without considering GD, 33.63% croplands have the potential to harvest another time and 64.84% cropland could have two-extra harvests, which would result in the harvested area increased by + 163.31%. However, if GD is considered, this potential is estimated much lower in overall and is varied greatly across crop selection scenarios. In the most close-to-reality scenario, roughly 40% croplands have no potential to make extra harvest, because the GS in many areas have been largely exploited and the remaining GS is insufficient to sustain another complete crop growth. Our study shows that crop choice plays an important role in measuring and exploiting the multiple cropping potential, which provides implications for China’s “agricultural supply-side structural reform” through sustainable land use intensification.

Research on the Path of Improving the Service Quality of Rural E-commerce Logistics in Jilin Province Based on Computer

With the gradual saturation of the urban e-commerce market and the continuous advancement of national urbanization, it has become an inevitable trend to expand e-commerce to rural areas, and it is also an important policy and way to promote rural development and agricultural supply-side structural reform in the context of new rural areas. Compared with urban e-commerce logistics, the development of rural e-commerce logistics in some parts of China, especially in the central and western regions, generally lags behind, mainly manifested in the lack of supply caused by the insufficient profitability of logistics enterprises. For rural e-commerce logistics, how to scientifically and rationally plan its distribution path to meet the reasonable demands of the government, enterprises and users is the main problem that needs to be faced at the present stage. We have carried on the detailed investigation and the analysis to the above question, and proposed the related improvement strategy.

The Development Process, International Experience and Breakthrough Direction of Agricultural Supply side Structural Reform

China’s agricultural supply side structure has experienced three major changes, but the effect is not obvious, so it is necessary to trace its roots and make a breakthrough. This paper explores the key points and difficulties in the three stages of China’s agricultural supply side reform, and finds that China’s agricultural supply side structural reform needs to break through three core points: removing the high inventory of main agricultural products, reducing farmers’ production costs, and making up for the safety and quality of agricultural products and the short board of ecological environment. Combined with the reform experience of the United States, Canada and India, this paper proposes to establish a diversified “government + market” policy regulation system, reduce agricultural production cost through multiple channels, improve agricultural production level, supplement the short board of modern agricultural production, realize sustainable green production, and seek an effective breakthrough in agricultural supply side structural reform.

Supply forecast of animal product in Sichuan Province based on GM Model

The research on the present situation and forecast of the supply of animal products in Sichuan Province is conducive to accelerating the agricultural supply-side structural reform and guaranteeing the effective supply of agricultural products. In this paper, on the basis of analyzing the situation of animal products in the past 10 years in Sichuan Province, using the Grey System Theory, and adopting GM (1, 1) Model, the supply of animal products in Sichuan Province in the next 10 years is forecast, through which the result shows that the model is highly precise and reliable. It concludes that, in the next 10 years, the output of animal products in Sichuan Province will increase in general year by year, except for somewhat decrease in that of herbivorous animals like cattle, sheep and rabbits in a few cities and regions, as regional difference exists. In the future, guidance provided for the development of husbandry should be based on the guarantee of products supply, change of consumers’ concept and increase of investment in science and technology, in order to promote the agricultural supply-side structural reform.

EFFECTS OF MAIZE POLICY REFORM IN NORTHEAST CHINA

National macro-policy is an important factor affecting the adjustment of farmers' livelihood strategies. It is necessary to analyze the impacts of agricultural change on farmers’ income and livelihood strategy adjustment when new policy is issued. The Northeast Chinais a strategic region that guarantees China's national grain security and is also an important pilot area for implementing national agricultural policies. As a breakthrough point in the present agricultural supply-side structural reform implemented by Chinese government, the reform of maize purchasing and storage system in Northeast China has played a significant role in adjusting the maize price and also exerted a significant influence on the income and family livelihood strategies of some farmers. Given the shifts in maize policy, the purpose of this research is to model farmers’ income change and their livelihood strategy adjustment in Northeast China. In consistence with the macro statistical data, the survey results of 125 questionnaires indicate that the reform of maize purchasing and storage system implemented in 2016 led to the drop of maize price in Northeast China by more than 30% in 2017, and the net income of maize growers in most areas of Northeast China declined by more than 60% compared with the previous year. Faced by the sudden drop in the maize price, 24.2% of maize growers in the surveyed farmers planned to adjust their livelihood strategies in a short term. The changes in livelihood strategies are mainly affected by the indicators of “comparison between income and expenditure” and “satisfaction with income from farming”. Finally, this paper puts forward some suggestions from the aspects of supporting subsidies, guidance for adjustment of family livelihood strategies and training of farmers' vocational skills.

Characterizing the attitudes of the grain-planting farmers of Huaihe Basin, China

At the end of 2015, the Chinese government enacted the “supply-side structural reform”. The fundamental purpose of this reform is to implement people-centered development and to improve the level of social productivity. As different types of farmers have different needs in terms of management incentives, it is necessary to evaluate the attitudes of Chinese farmers in the period of agricultural supply-side structural reform. In this study we used the Q-methodology to divide 26 grain-planting farmers in the Huaihe Basin into three types, positive development farmer (PD), negative development farmer (ND) and family support farmer (FS), based on their attitudes towards policy, land, livelihood and planting plan. We found that: (1) Policy: FS-type evaluated the direct subsidy policy most highly. In contrast, ND-type had the most negative attitudes toward food-related policies. (2) Land: PD-type, which are representative of the new generation of grain farmers, had the highest dependence on the land, and land resources are likely to become their most scarce resource. (3) Livelihood: ND-type had the highest responsiveness to livelihoods, and they were most inclined to co-op. (4) Planting plan: FS-type were the most likely to replace food crops with cash crops. PD-type’s planting plan is limited by the sales capacity, and ND-type’s planting plan is most affected by technology. According to the characteristics of Chinese farmers, expanding the classification of different aspects is not only the development of the Q classification in the study of farmers, but also a new perspective to study the individual differences of Chinese farmers under the background of supply-side structural reform.

Fundamental problems, causes and focuses of China’s agricultural supply-side structural reform

This paper first analyzes three major problems facing agricultural supply-side structural reform in China, namely, “the simultaneous increase of three quantities”, “the concomitant rise of three costs” and “the concurrent inversion of four prices”, that is, the contemporaneous increase of domestic grain production, grain import, and total social grain inventory; the simultaneous rise of labor costs, land costs, material and service costs of agricultural production; inversions between domestic and foreign grain prices, production and marketing areas, market prices and minimum purchase prices, as well as paddy and rice prices. It is found from a comparative analysis of historical data and relevant data both at home and abroad that imbalance between agricultural supply and demand and costs of agro-products are two fundamental problems facing agrarian supply-side structural reform, which should be given top priority in order to reduce inventory, cut down costs, and improve weaknesses. Corresponding countermeasures and focuses are put forward to gradually alleviate the unbalanced supply and demand of agricultural products, such as variety optimization, quality assurance and brand building. Economies of scale will improve through various forms of scale management, labor productivity increased by enhancing agricultural mechanization rate, and efficiency and competitiveness enhanced by improving quality and adopting brand strategy, with a view to improve quality and efficiency and reduce costs.

Carbon footprint of wheat-summer direct-seeding peanut planting system in Shandong Pro-vince, China

Clarifying the carbon emissions in wheat-summer direct-seeding peanut planting (W-P) system could help realize the synergistic effects of high yield and low carbon emissions. Based on whole life cycle method, we constructed a carbon footprint model to calculate the carbon emissions of W-P system. We found that the net income of W-P system was 71.2%-88.3% higher than that of wheat-maize rotation (W-M) system. The carbon emissions per unit area under W-P system was 6977.9-8018.5 kg·hm-2, being 6.2% higher than that of W-M system. The carbon emission of per net income under W-P system was 0.23-0.28 kg CO2-eq·yuan-1, which was 37.4%-44.1% lower than that of W-M system. Combining the net income and carbon emissions of per net income, W-P system could achieve synergistic effects of high yield and low carbon emissions, which would fulfill the targets of agricultural supply-side structural reform with optimizing supply, enhancing quality and efficiency, and increasing income of peasants.

The Research on Farmers' Income from Property Based on Agrarian Supply-side Structural Reform

In the new era of building socialism with Chinese characteristics, in order to narrow the gap between the income of urban and rural residents, we must constantly improve salary income, income of profit-making and metastatic income. Meanwhile, we should actively increase the proportion of the farmers' property income in total income. According to the specific analysis of the property income of farmers in Jiangsu Province, the proportion of the income of the farmers' property income is small, the regional difference is large, and the gap between urban and rural areas is large. Land is the farmers' most important property and land revenue is an important component of farmers' income from property. Excellent rural land system can effectively protect and increase farmers' property income. Agricultural supply-side structural reform put forward by the central in 2016 emphasis to vigorously promote the reform of rural land system. Based on this, this article analyzes influences on farmers' property income from the system of rural land contract and management right, rural land expropriation system, rural homestead system and the rural collective management of construction land, and then puts forward to paths of increasing farmers' property income: deepen the reform of the rural land property rights system; comprehensively promote reform of the rural land expropriation system and the rural homestead system; promote the introduction of land for collectively-owned construction into the market.

Accelerating Agricultural Comprehensive Development by Science and Technology, Actively Boosting Agricultural Supply-side Structural Reform

Accelerating Agricultural Comprehensive Development by Science and Technology, Actively Boosting Agricultural Supply-side Structural Reform