Impact of new-type agricultural operating entities on green transformation of smallholders'production
The new-type agricultural operating entities play an important role in promoting connections between smallholder's production and modern agricultural development,but the role of the new agricultural operating entities in driving the green transformation of smallholders'production is still not clear.This paper tests the effects of new agricultural operators on the green transformation of smallholders'production by the PSM model,and explore the effect mechanism by the mediating effects model.The research found that:1)Cooperatives significantly promote the green transformation of smallholders'production,followed by agricultural enterprises.The promoting effect of family farms is not significant.Compared to cooperating with single type of new agricultural operating entities,the synergistic cooperation between smallholders and multiple new agricultural operating entities significantly positively promote the green transformation of smallholders'production.2)There are group differences in the impact of new-type agricultural operating entities on the green transition of smallholders'production.For the smallholders with smaller land scales and more dependence on agricultural income,the new-type agricultural operating entities'promoting effects are more significant.3)Smallholders improve their level of green production by two ways:learning agricultural technology and receiving socialized agricultural services from new-type agricultural operating entities.Based on these findings,it is proposed to implement classified policies to enhance the ability of the new-type agricultural operating entities to drive smallholders,optimize supporting policies for smallholders,encourage the new-type agricultural operating entities to demonstrate to others,and open the channels for agricultural socialized services.
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