Digital Economy and Agriculture Carbon Productivity:Impact Effect and Empirical Test
Using digital economy to promote green agricultural development and improve agricultural carbon produc-tivity is an important way to achieve the goal of"double carbon"in agriculture.Based on the panel data of 30 provinces in China from 2011 to 2020,this paper empirically tests the impact and mechanism of digital economy on agricultural carbon productivity.The results show that the development of digital economy has significantly im-proved agricultural carbon productivity.A series of robustness tests were conducted using methods such as repla-cing explanatory variables,removing partial samples,adjusting sample periods,and instrumental variable analysis,and the conclusion remained valid.There is a positive relationship between technological innovation and the digital economy and agricultural carbon productivity,and it plays a mediating role in transmission.At the same time,the impact of the digital economy on agricultural carbon productivity has obvious heterogeneity,with the eastern re-gion,the production and sales balance zone and the high-tech innovation capability region having the most signifi-cant and largest impact effect.The digital economy has a threshold effect on the improvement of agricultural carbon productivity and its promoting effect is significantly enhanced when the digital economy and technological innova-tion cross the threshold value.
digital economytechnological innovationagricultural carbon productivityintermediary effectthreshold effect