Impact of land transfer on high-quality agricultural development:Analysis based on the green TFP perspective
Chinese agricultural production is changing from factor input type to efficiency en-hancing type.Whether land transfer can drive agriculture into a high-quality development track,the effects and mechanisms have not been effectively demonstrated.Based on the theoret-ical analysis,the article uses the SBM-GML model to construct green total factor productivity indicators to measure the high-quality agricultural development level in each provincial-level region,and then uses the panel data models with interactive fixed effects to test the land trans-fer impact on high-quality agricultural development and its mechanism based on the panel data of 30 provincial-level regions of China from 2005 to 2022.The study found that,(1)land trans-fer significantly contributes to high-quality agricultural development,and this finding still holds in controlling regional omitted variables,systematic GMM estimation,instrumental vari-able estimation and exogenous shock test.(2)Land transfer mainly promotes high-quality agri-cultural development by increasing agricultural output,while its effect on reducing agricultural non-point source pollution is unclear.Although land transfer has not significantly promoted large-scale management,it has effectively improved the land and labor utilization efficiency which helps to promote high-quality agricultural development.(3)Different forms of land trans-fer have heterogeneous impacts on high-quality agricultural development,compared with spon-taneous forms of transfer such as exchange or transfer,the market-based forms such as lease or shareholding have a more significant impact on high-quality agricultural development.(4)Dif-ferent land transfer recipients also have heterogeneous impacts on high-quality agricultural de-velopment,compared with transferring land to ordinary farmers,transferring land to new busi-ness entities such as family farms,professional cooperatives and enterprises can significantly contribute to high-quality agricultural developmentt.
land transferhigh-quality agricultural developmentgreen total factor productivityheterogeneity