Identification of Regional Differences,Spatial and Temporal Characteristics,and Drivers of Digital Agriculture Development in China
[Objective]To study the level of development of digital agriculture in China,explore the charac-teristics of spatial and temporal distribution,and identify the driving factors,with a view to providing a decision-making basis for realizing the high-quality development of digital agriculture.[Method]Based on the panel data of 31 provinces(cities and districts)in China from 2015-2021,we constructed an evaluation system from four dimensions,namely,digital agriculture infrastructure,digital agriculture development trans-formation,digital agriculture industrialization level,and agriculture digitization level,and analyzed China's digital agriculture development level,regional differences and spatial-temporal characteristics,as well as the identification of the driving factors by using entropy method,Dagum's Gini coefficient and decomposition,standard deviation ellipse,and geographic detector.[Result]①The overall development level of our digital agriculture is on the low side,but during the study period,the overall development level gradually increased,and spatially showed a regional distribution pattern of"high in the east,secondary in the center,and low in the west",with an obvious regional"Matthew effect".②In terms of regional differences,inter-regional differ-ences are the main source of overall differences.③ From the point of view of spatial and temporal characteris-tics,the center of gravity of China's digital agriculture development as a whole presents the characteristics of moving from the northwest to the southeast,the overall development of the discrete small,spatial distribution is more clustered.④ On the identification of driving factors,the level of technological R&D and innovation,the level of regional economic development and the per capital consumption expenditure of rural residents have a significant impact on the development of digital agriculture,and the strength of the impact is higher than other factors.[Conclusion]Based on the conclusions of the study,the article proposes that the joint de-velopment of leading provinces and lagging provinces,the integration of multi-party subjects and the joint cul-tivation of farmers'digital literacy,sharing resources and technologies in the digital infrastructure can help promote China's digital agriculture from a localized"bonsai"to a large-scale"landscape".
developing digital agricultureregional differencesspatio-temporal characteristicsdriving forcesgeoprobes
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