Distribution Of Agricultural Production Research Articles

Analisis Komoditas Unggulan Sektor Pertanian di Kabupaten Solok

This study aims to analyze the agricultural sector base growth and development of the agricultural sector compared to other sectors. Which is the agricultural sub-sector, the development of the progress of sector growth, the agricultural sub-sector of Solok Regency, which is the leading commodity of the agricultural sector of Solok Regency, how is the distribution and center of agricultural superior production in Solok Regency which consists of 14 districts. This study uses secondary data, namely the production data of each agricultural commodity in 2016-2020 obtained from the Central Bureau of Statistics of Solok Regency. The results showed that there were 5 commodities that became superior commodities that had basic, specialization and competitive aspects in Solok Regency, namely clove commodities (plantations), bananas (horticulture), roses, cattle (animal husbandry) and in the lake (fishery) with each commodities have both a sectoral contribution aspect and a higher growth aspect at the district level compared to the provincial level.

Climate change and spatial agricultural development in Turkey

AbstractThis paper investigates the impact of climate change on the spatial distribution of agricultural production in Turkey between 2004 and 2019. Our findings show that climate change has a pervasive impact on agricultural development. The empirical results show that the average temperature is negatively associated with agricultural land use, grain, and legume production. Moreover, regional variability analyses reveal the nonmonotonic relationships between climatic factors and agricultural output. Climate change hurts agricultural production in northern and central regions the most. This finding points out the ineffectiveness of one‐size‐fits‐all‐type policies for mitigating the adverse effects of climate change in topography with sizeable spatial dissimilarities. Overall, our results suggest that climate change will significantly threaten the evolution of agricultural activities that are critical for regional development. In addition, findings show that spatial spillovers and heterogeneity will be crucial for designing climate change policies for rural and agricultural development.

Labor Endowment Change, Regional Difference, and Agricultural Production Location Adjustment: Evidence from China

The outflow of the rural labor force has a great impact on the location distribution of agricultural production, which has not attracted enough attention in existing studies. This article describes the mechanism of agricultural production location adjustment and further studies the influence of a regional difference in labor endowment on agricultural production location adjustment. Based on commodity and province-level panel data calculation, the results show that the agricultural production location in China has been adjusted from the East to the Central and then to the West with accelerating transfer speed. Furthermore, it is found that the regional differences in labor endowment are the main driving force for the shift of low alternative crop production. The more labor-intensive the crop varieties are, the more obvious the influence of the regional differences in labor endowment is on the crop production location adjustment. Moreover, regional differences in labor endowment have little effect on the location adjustment of vegetable production, as expanding the vegetable market demand may offset the effect of labor supply shortage on the adjustment of vegetable production location. Therefore, it is necessary to formulate a regional industrial development plan consistent with the trend of agricultural production location adjustment, as well as promote the construction of agricultural circulation facilities and socialized services in less developed areas.

Does Agricultural Credit Input Promote Agricultural Green Total Factor Productivity? Evidence from Spatial Panel Data of 30 Provinces in China.

Improving agricultural green total factor productivity is crucial to promoting high-quality agricultural development. This paper selects the panel data of 30 provinces in China from 2009 to 2020 and uses the super-efficiency SBM model with undesirable outputs to measure the agricultural green total factor productivity of all regions in China. On this basis, this paper uses the panel data fixed-effect model and spatial Durbin model to empirically discuss the impact of agricultural credit input on agricultural green total factor productivity and its spatial spillover effect. The main conclusions are as follows: First, from 2009 to 2020, the average values of agricultural green total factor productivity in national, eastern, central, and western regions are 0.8909, 0.9977, 0.9231, and 0.8068, respectively, and the agricultural green total factor productivity needs to be further improved. Second, the agricultural green total factor productivity presents a significant and positive spatial correlation, and the spatial distribution of agricultural green total factor productivity is not random and irregular. Third, agricultural credit input can significantly promote agricultural green total factor productivity in the local region, but it hinders the improvement of agricultural green total factor productivity in the adjacent regions. Fourth, the impact of agricultural credit input on the agricultural green total factor productivity and its spillover effect has a significant regional heterogeneity. This paper believes that paying attention to the spatial spillover effect of agricultural total factor productivity, optimizing the structure and scale of agricultural credit input, and formulating reasonable agricultural credit policies can improve agricultural green total factor productivity.

Agricultural Productive Carrying Capacity Improve and Water Optimal Allocation under Uncertainty Based on Remote Sensing Data in Lancang County, Southwest China

Through the reasonable calculation of water resources, evaluating the irrigation carrying capacity of farmland under the constraints of water resources is crucial for optimizing the spatial distribution of agricultural production and ecology and rationally adjusting the scale of agricultural production. This paper proposes an optimization framework based on Type 2 fuzzy chance-constrained programming (T2FCCP) to solve the problem of regional water resources optimal allocation and evaluation of farmland irrigation carrying capacity under uncertain conditions. To illustrate the applicability of the proposed framework, this paper conducts a case study on Lancang County, Puer City, Yunnan Province. Methods, such as watershed harmony evaluation method, remote sensing data, and shared socioeconomic pathways (SSPs), are applied and integrated into the proposed optimization framework to systematically deal with uncertainties in water resource systems and agricultural systems. The results include the costs and benefits of regional water and soil resources systems, water resources optimal allocation, and crop planting structure results under different SSPs in Lancang County, Puer City. The results also show that the total cost under T2FCCP is about 5% lower than that under fuzzy chance-constrained programming (FCCP) and about 17% lower than that under chance-constrained programming (CCP). By 2025, the water resources carrying capacity of different tributaries in Lancang County, Puer City will increase, and based on the evaluation results of agricultural production irrigation carrying capacity, suggestions are given to ensure agricultural production carrying capacity.

Exploring the spatiotemporal variation characteristics and influencing factors of gully agricultural production transformation in the Chinese Loess Plateau: A case study of loess hilly and gully region in Yan'an City

Exploring the variation characteristics and influencing factors of gully agricultural production transformation (GAPT) in the Loess Plateau (LP) can provide scientific reference for the evolution of rural human-environment relationship and agricultural multi-functional development in the context of green high-quality development. In this paper, Taking Yan'an City of loess hilly and gully region (LHGR) as the study area, 30m resolution Landsat TM/OLI data in the year of 1995, 2000, 2005, 2010, and 2018 were selected, and kernel density estimation and geographic detector model were used to analyzes the process of GAPT, and to explore the driving force of GAPT in the LP and its spatial-temporal differentiation pattern. The results show that: (1) In the past 20 years, the gully agricultural production in the Yan'an LHGR has shown a divergent distribution and phased expansion, and the overall trend of fluctuating shrinkage. The gully agricultural production transformation center of gravity in the study area has shifted from the middle-altitude to the low-altitude area. (2) The gully agricultural production in the study area is transforming to agglomeration at small spatial scales. GAPT mostly occurs in the water supply belts near river waters, and in the area close to roads and areas near rural settlements which are closely related to human activities. (3) The process of GAPT mainly driven by socio-economic factors and policy factors, and it presents three evolution characteristics: contiguous distribution of traditional agricultural production, transformation of modern gully agricultural production functions, and modern agricultural and tourism multi-functional three-industry integration. The essence is the functional transformation of gully agricultural land. (4) GAPT in the LP is driven by many factors. Behavior subjects at different levels would promote the GAPT in different directions under the background of major national and regional development policies. The research results can provide scientific reference for crop planting mode adjustment, sustainable land use management, and the similar regional agriculture green transformation, thus supporting the realization of the strategic objectives of high-quality agricultural development and rural revitalization in the Yellow River Basin.

Spatial Distribution and Convergence of Agricultural Green Total Factor Productivity in China.

The power source, spatial-temporal differentiation and convergence of the growth rate of green total factor productivity in China’s agriculture were analyzed. The Malmquist index was used to measure the growth rate, and the spatial-temporal convergence was tested by convergence, absolute convergence, conditional convergence and dynamic spatial convergence. The study drew conclusions that the impetus for the intensive growth of green agriculture was insufficient, and the driving force for the growth of agricultural green total factor productivity (AGTFP) in the eastern, western and central region was green technology progress. In addition, AGTFP did not have an absolute σ convergence trend. Dynamic spatial absolute and conditional convergence indicated that regional differences were not completely related to regional endowment conditions, and regional green agricultural production was unbalanced. This study provides an important support for regional green development in China’s agriculture.

REGIONAL DETERMINANTS OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION DEVELOPMENT IN POLAND

The aim of the analysis was to determine changes in the level of spatial concentration of production in Poland in the years 1990-2020. The analysis includes output and commodity production, the production of basic agricultural raw materials, the livestock of cattle, cows, pigs, hens and animals converted to LU, and changes in the level of yield and milk yield of cows. The study used data from the Central Statistical Office and the Local Data Bank. In order to limit short-term variability, especially in crop production, five-year averages for the beginning and end of the period were used in most of the analyses. The analysis was carried out for the currently binding administrative division including 16 voivodships. The research has shown large changes in the spatial distribution of agricultural production in Poland. First of all, the Wielkopolskie Voivodship gained in the production of agricultural raw materials, as it increased its share in the majority of plant and animal agricultural products, the Mazowieckie Voivodship, which specialized in animal production (except pork), and the Podlaskie Voivodship, with the production of milk and beef livestock, developed above average. On the other hand, the importance of voivodeships from South-Eastern Poland decreased, as animal production was marginalised, and plant production declined as a result of the greater exclusion of land from agricultural production and a higher decline in crop yield. In the case of the provinces of Western Poland, there was also a significant reduction in the livestock production, but the importance of that region in crop production increased, mainly due to a higher-than-average increase in crop yield in Poland.

Особенности современного размещения производства продукции сельского хозяйства в российском Нечерноземье

The macro-region Nonblack Soil Zone plays an important role in the development of the Russian economy, ensuring its food security. With the transition of the country to market relations, the distribution of agricultural production in all its regions has been transformed. These changes for the Nonblack Soil Zone have not been properly studied. This study focuses on the patterns of change in the location of agricultural production in the Nonblack Soil Zone. Research methodology relies on a combination of statistical analysis methods with heuristic methods (taking into account zonal and azonal factors) based on the use of fundamental works on agricultural zoning. The study has established trends towards a decrease in the role of the Nonblack Soil Zone in the all-Russian production of crop products and towards its growth for livestock products. An excessive concentration of production in pig and poultry farming has been revealed. On the basis of zonal factors, the northern, central, and southern groups of regions are identified. Taking into account the azonal factors, the central regions are divided into two subgroups: the main agricultural regions and those with suburban agriculture. The research has established Tendencies in changing the location of agricultural production. The authors have concluded that the main zone of commercial production of grain (except rye) and industrial crops (except fiber flax) is the group of southern regions, and the commercial production of winter rye, oats, fiber flax is the agrarian regions of the central zone. For the southern regions, there is a trend of high growth rates of corn for grain, sugar beet, sunflower. The group of central regions is the main producer of livestock goods. Given the trends, the role of the southern regions in the production of beef cattle and poultry products will increase in the future. In regions with suburban farming, the dairy specialization of cattle breeding is on the rise and the production of eggs and all types of livestock for slaughter is decreasing. Meanwhile, in the group of northern regions, the development of dairy and meat cattle breeding, the production of potatoes and vegetables is likely to improve.

Modern Agriculture in Canada

Modern agriculture plays an essential role in the functioning of Canada's food system and the ensuring household food security as well as the expansion of agricultural exports. The article describes the specialization and the distribution of agricultural production in the provinces of Canada and the territories of the Arctic zone of the country. Particular attention is paid to the development of urban agriculture, which is considered in some cases to be an element of the action plan to combat climate change.

Mutual analyses of agriculture land use and transportation networks: The future location of soybean and corn production in Brazil.

CONTEXTGiven the need to expand food production to satisfy an increasing world population; regional land-use planners must direct this expansion to available, permitted areas (i.e., not legally protected forests) where production can be maximized and transportation costs, production costs and environmental impacts can be minimized. In this balancing act, the capabilities and layout of the current and future transport system are crucial in determining the spatial distribution of future agricultural production. OBJECTIVEThe objective of the present study was to develop a modeling framework to determine the optimal spatial distribution of new soybean and corn production areas in Brazil and transport flows needed to move these commodities to maximize economic gains and limit or reduce negative environmental impacts. METHODSInitially, we applied Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to classify regions suitable for expanding soybean and corn production according to an area's potential for superior agricultural performance. Subsequently, we used a Network Equilibrium Model (NEM) to determine the best spatial distribution of new soybean and corn production areas so that their production added to existing production meets the estimated 2050 demand and the optimal configuration of existing and proposed transportation infrastructure required to move this production to appropriate locations. RESULTS AND CONCLUSIONSWhen compared to a 2018 baseline, the complete operation of planned railroads and the positioning of future grain production to occupy regions indicated by the modeling could increase soybean and corn production by 66% without simultaneous deforestation, reduce carbon dioxide emissions due to interregional soybean and corn transport by about 14%, and reduce combined transport and production costs by about 2%. SIGNIFICANCEThe proposed modeling framework should be an extremely useful tool when determining sites for future agriculture production and the network matrix needed to transport this production, especially when considering the relationship between land use and transportation infrastructure.

Spatial Dependence Evaluation of Agricultural Technical Efficiency—Based on the Stochastic Frontier and Spatial Econometric Model

In recent years, through the implementation of a series of policies, such as the delimitation of major grain producing areas and the construction of advantageous and characteristic agricultural product areas, the spatial distribution of agriculture in China has changed significantly; however, research on the impact of such changes on the efficiency of agricultural technology is still lacking. Taking 11 cities in Hebei Province as the research object, this study examines the spatial dependence of regional agricultural technical efficiency using the stochastic frontier analysis and spatial econometric analysis. The results show that the improvement in agricultural technical efficiency is evident in all cities in Hebei Province from 2008 to 2017, but there is scope for further improvement. Industrial agglomeration has statistical significance in improving the efficiency of agricultural technology. Further, there is an obvious spatial correlation and difference in agricultural technical efficiency. Optimizing the spatial distribution of agricultural production, promoting the innovation, development, and application of agricultural technology, and promoting the expansion of regional elements can contribute to improving agricultural technical efficiency.

Guangdong Tropical Agriculture Regional Distribution and Industrial Structure Situation: Perspective of Choice for Optimization and Adjustment

It is necessary to clarify the current regional layout and industrial structure of Guangdong tropical agriculture. Speed up the research on the selection of suitable industries for tropical agriculture, scientifically guide the concentration of various agricultural industries in the most suitable areas, help all kinds of social funds clarify the investment direction and key areas, promote the professional division of labor in agricultural regions, deepen the structural reform of agricultural supply side, and form a reasonable distribution of agricultural productivity, are of great importance. Focus on situation of agricultural regional distribution and industrial structure in tropical area of Guangdong, this research analyzes the characteristics, industrial development model and existing problems, and puts forward the optimization and adjustment path and policy suggestions of tropical agriculture in Guangdong. The characteristics include agricultural environment rich in resources, the industrial regional characteristics are distinct, advantageous industries gradually concentrated on advantageous regions, industrial structure become more and more reasonable, modern agricultural model has taken shape with good basic conditions, the "dumbbell" characteristics of agricultural industrial organization structure have gradually emerged, agricultural operation service organization led by supply and marketing cooperatives has been preliminarily established. The existing problems in developing tropical agriculture in sub-tropical areas of Guangdong include industrial structure and variety structure among counties need to be optimized, imperfect industrial chain, land fragmentation leads to the miniaturization of production and operation, the agricultural socialized service system needs to be further improved, imperfect agricultural technology extension system. The optimization and adjustment path of tropical agriculture in sub-tropical areas of Guangdong are making efficient tropical agricultural industrial structure and layout with appropriate scale regional agricultural products as the main body, selecting suitable industries and extend their industrial chain, constructing professional agricultural socialized service system, strengthening construction of grass-roots agricultural technology popularization system, enhancing agricultural cooperation between Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and Hainan Free Trade Port.

Inappropriate Technology: Evidence from Global Agriculture

An influential hypothesis explaining the persistence of global productivity differences is that frontier technologies are finely tuned to the local conditions of the high-income countries that develop them and inappropriate for application elsewhere. This paper studies how environmental differences between frontier innovators and the rest of the world shape the global diffusion, adoption, and productivity consequences of agricultural technology. Our empirical design uses differences in the presence of unique crop pests and pathogens (CPPs) as a instrument for the appropriateness of crop-specific biotechnology developed in one country and applied in another. We first find that inappropriateness predicted by CPP differences reduces cross-country transfer of novel biotechnology. We next find that inappropriateness relative to frontier innovators reduces adoption of improved seeds and crop-level output. Our estimates suggest that the inappropriateness of the contemporary frontier reduces global productivity by 50% and increases cross-country dispersion in log productivity by 15% relative to a world in which technology were equally productive in all contexts. We use our framework to study how historical and predicted changes in the geography of innovation affect the global distribution of agricultural productivity.

Regional Uneven Development of Agriculture in the World Economy at the Beginning of the XXI Century

The paper is devoted to one of the most acute problems in the world economy - regional uneven development of agriculture. The author determined the system of indicators that describe the uneven distribution of agricultural production between different regions of the world, studied the factors of efficiency of agricultural production - labor productivity, land productivity, capital productivity (capital return). The article demonstrates further consolidation of the trend of the second half of the XX century that manifested in the redistribution of agricultural production from North America and Europe to Asia, Africa, and Australia. The GDP created in agriculture in Asia already exceeded other regions of the world in 2000, and by 2017 the gap was even wider. Africa, having surpassed Europe in this indicator, ranked second in the world. The unevenness of economic growth in world agriculture manifested itself in the disproportions between the factors of efficiency of agricultural production - labor productivity and land productivity. Labor productivity was lowest in Asia and Africa, and the highest in Australia. Land productivity was characterized by diametrically opposite dynamics: the highest values were achieved in Asia, and the lowest - in Australia. The paper explains the disparity between labor productivity and land productivity by various technological modes of production (TMP) that have historically developed in agriculture in the East and West: land-saving TMP - in the East, and labor-saving TMP - in the West. The influence of informal institutions operating in traditional rural societies on the uneven development of agriculture is also studied. The disproportions in the development of the livestock sector of agricultural production, affecting the regional uneven development of the agricultural economy, are considered. The main forms and methods of organization of the livestock sector - from high-intensity to traditional - are analyzed. Special attention is paid to nomadic cattle breeding, which is currently preserved in various forms in 50 countries of the world. It is considered as a special nomad production mode. The article concludes that there is a need for a multipronged approach to conducting an international comparative analysis of capital productivity (index of capital return) in the agricultural sector of the economy that takes into account capital-labor ration a large-scale increase in labor productivity - a strategically important factor of economic growth in any country in the world.

Strategic management of the development of production and distribution of agricultural products of the agricultural sector of the region

The aim of the article is to study the methodological foundations and the development of a two-stage model for forecasting alternative options for the optimal development of production and sales of agricultural products in the agricultural sector of the region. The methods of economic-mathematical models and algorithms for forecasting and choosing the best options for the development and distribution of agricultural production through their implementation channels were used, alternative development options for the production and sale of agricultural products and their socio-economic efficiency were determined. Methods of empirical analysis of sources on this topic were also used. Based on the results of the study, appropriate forward-looking recommendations and suggestions for decision makers were prepared. The author comes to the conclusion that the article summarizes the typical conditions for the development and distribution of agricultural products through the channels of their implementation, taking into account quantitative and qualitative characteristics.

МАКРОЭКОНОМИЧЕСКИЕ АСПЕКТЫ СТРАТЕГИИ УПРАВЛЕНИЯ СЕЛЬСКИМ ПРОСТРАНСТВЕННЫМ РАЗВИТИЕМ В РОССИИ

The article discusses and reveals the problems of strategic management of spatial development in the agricultural sector of the Russian economy at the macro-economic level, which include both territorial location and specialization of production, and exogenous mechanisms of functioning of the rural economy, which collectively concludes the concept of “rural development”. The approaches of representatives of the scientific community to the characterization of the essence of the category – “strategic management” as a long-term action program are presented. In the agricultural sector, it has different directions of impact due to spatial heterogeneity, which is manifested in the territorial differentiation of production (rental) opportunities for agricultural production in different administrative-territorial units of the corresponding hierarchical scale. This is aggravated by a non-adaptive agrarian macroeconomic policy, market imperfections, fetishization of private, especially land ownership, as well as unjustified absolutization of the advantages of large forms of agricultural production. The overstated role of foreign capital in agriculture, food and processing industries creates significant social, economic and environmental risks. In the agricultural and food sector of country’s economy, including the location and specialization of agricultural production, it is necessary to develop and adopt at the Federal level legislative acts that would encourage the integration of producers, processors, service enterprises, trade and credit and financial organizations, and consumer unions in the regions. To do this, it is necessary to develop a new, science-based paradigm of strategic management of rural development, regional distribution and specialization of agricultural production based on an objective assessment of modern productive forces, which are limited by the framework of private property and unregulated market relations, with a critical approach to large-scale forms of agricultural production.

Priorities for development of adaptive systems of agriculture management in the Republic of Belarus in the context of agricultural theory and practice evolution

At the present stage there is a dynamic trend of transition to a new paradigm of land use in the world agriculture. Its nature is displayed in activation of practical embodiment of “green economy” principles, wide development of organic and other alternative agricultural technologies ensuring rational growth and efficiency of agricultural production observing scientific bases of nature orientation at maximum. One of the most important structural components of the new paradigm of land use are adaptive technologies of agricultural crops cultivation and adaptive systems of agriculture management in general. The paper presents the key aspects of evolution of the theory of adaptive improvement of agricultural processes, substantiation of the priority directions of development of adaptive systems of agriculture in Belarus is given, considering the modern innovative and market transformations. In particular, given the relevance and peculiarities of adaptation of agricultural production to economic and natural environment of functioning of business entities and regions in conditions of cooperative integration processes development, including the ones in the framework of EAEU and the Union state of the Republic of Belarus and the Russian Federation, new approaches are defined to improvement of production specialization and territorial distribution of agricultural production of the Republic. Economically and ecologically expedient measures of formation of rational structure of sown areas and adequate crop rotations based on adaptability principles are substantiated. In the context of practical implementation of the Law of the Republic of Belarus “On production and circulation of organic products”, the features of specialization of farms on agricultural production using organic technologies are described. Efficiency of diversification of agricultural production is substantiated. Directions of increasing the level of information support for processes of learning adaptive management systems in Agro-Industrial Complex considering digitalization of agricultural economy, and expansion of precision farming methods are presented. Expediency of taking into account provisions of classical economic theories to make the most optimal choice of options for specialization and location of agricultural production based on record of absolute and relative competitive advantages of companies and regions is substantiated.

Distribution of agricultural productivity gains in selected Feed the Future African countries

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine investments in selected Feed the Future countries in Africa. Design/methodology/approach The authors examine three investments in Feed the Future countries (e.g. Rwanda and Uganda) in the context of non-traded goods, exports and imports. These investments include research and development in Ugandan cassava production, a value chain intervention in the coffee market channel in Rwanda and a program to increase the use of fertilizer for maize production in Rwanda. The authors also stress the importance of distributional impacts in terms of policymaking. Findings The results show that while there can be net gains from each investment discussed, the distributional effects of each are very different. Originality/value The findings will be useful for the development community and agribusiness policymaking.

Resources for the transition of rural areas to a diversified development model

One of the priority strategic objectives aimed at reducing the unjustifiably high spatial differentiation of rural areas is their diversification, carried out by involving unused resource reserves into development, creating new opportunities for the industries which products have a steady market demand. The purpose of this scientific work is to justify the need to move from a predominantly mono-functional to a diversified model of rural development. Creating models for their diversified development requires defining the rural areas as a special space, in which a specific activity closely related to the natural habitat is carried out, depending on the natural, economic factors of farming and formed in the conditions of the almost universal distribution of multi-component agricultural production. In the process of research, the relationship between the diversity of the rural economy structure and the multifunctionality of rural areas was revealed, which showed the need to diversify the economy by stimulating various types of activities. Taking into account domestic and foreign experience, approaches to building a model of diversified development of rural areas are justified. Based on a study of the rural economy structure, a model of diversification was proposed, containing single-industry and multi-industry blocks, including a different combination of industries and their advantages and disadvantages. It is concluded that the most effective is an industry-specific model with a diversified rural economy due to the maximum possible set of various economic forms and activities that meet the needs of the population in employment.