Preserving the source of life:high-standard farmland construction and agricultural water efficiency
High-standard farmland construction helps transform'grain fields'into'good fields',which plays an important role in ensuring national food security and promoting high-quality agricultural de-velopment.This paper uses the policy of high-standard basic farmland construction as a quasi-natural ex-periment to explore the impact and mechanisms of this policy on agricultural water use efficiency.The find-ings indicate that the high-standard farmland construction policy significantly enhances agricultural water use efficiency,with a long-term effect,as confirmed by a series of robustness tests.Heterogeneity analysis shows that the improvement effect on agricultural water efficiency is relatively stronger in regions with abun-dant water resources,high agricultural dependency,and major grain-producing areas.Mechanism analysis reveals that high-standard farmland construction will improve agricultural water use efficiency through the channels of efficient water-saving irrigation and agricultural planting structure adjustment.Additionally,the agricultural water-saving effect of the high-standard farmland construction policy will also bring about significant rural energy-saving effects and income-generating effects for farmers.The conclusions of this paper provide references and evidence for China to improve agricultural water use efficiency.
land consolidationagricultural water use efficiencyhigh standard farmlanddouble difference method
万方数据
维普
