Study on the Quality and Benefit Effects of the Standardization Development of Agricultural Service Entities—Survey Based on 1147 Agricultural Socialized Service Entities
The standardized development of agricultural socialized service entities is an important initiative to promote service-driven moderate-scale operations and is a critical policy direction for the high-quality development of agriculture and the modernization of agriculture with Chinese characteristics in the new era.The simultaneous enhancement of service quality and net service income through service standardization is pivotal.This paper presents an in-depth analysis of the quality and revenue effects of the standardized development of entities based on microdata from 1147 agricultural socialized service entities across 18 provinces in China.Results indicate a positive correlation between service quality and the level of standardization,while net service income exhibits a"positive U-shaped"relationship with standardization,suggesting that enhancing standardization can improve both service quality and net income once it reaches a certain stage of development.Moreover,the effects of standardization on quality and income display significant heterogeneity with townships as boundaries.These findings offer insights for the standardization of agricultural services and the regulatory decisions concerning service entities.