Measurement and Analysis of China's Smart Agriculture Development Index
Measuring the development index of smart agriculture is of great significance in promoting the deep integration of digital economy and agriculture.Based on the division of smart agriculture in the Statistical Classification of the Digital Economy and its Core Industries(2021),and starting from the four aspects of digital facility cultivation,digital forestry,automated breeding and new technology-assisted activities,we adopt the panel data of 31 provincial-level administrative regions in China(excluding Hong Kong,Macao,and Taiwan)from 2017 to 2021,use the subjective and objective empowerment method that combines the hierarchical analysis method with the entropy method by analyzing the intrinsic mechanism of the deep integration and development of digital economy and agriculture,construct the evaluation index system of smart agriculture development,and measure and analyze the smart agriculture development index and regional differences.The study finds:The national level of smart agriculture development shows an upward trend during the study period,but the overall level is low;The index values of the four aspects of smart agriculture development,namely,digital facility planting,automated breeding,digital forestry and new technology-assisted activities,decrease in descending order,and the index value of the automated breeding aspect shows the largest growth rate;The level of smart agriculture development in the four major economic regions and three major food functional areas shows an upward trend during the study period,but the gap in the development of smart agriculture between regions gradually widens.