ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Sustain. Food Syst.
Sec. Agricultural and Food Economics
Volume 9 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fsufs.2025.1601227
This article is part of the Research TopicHarnessing Digital Innovation for Sustainable Agricultural DevelopmentView all 31 articles
Can new quality productivity promote high-quality agricultural development? --an Empirical Study Based on Provincial Panel Data in China
Provisionally accepted
Simeng Zhang1
Fengjie Xie2*- 1School of Economics and Management, Shenyang Ligong University, Shenyang, China
- 2School of Economics and Management, Shenyang Agricultural University, Shenyang, Liaoning Province, China
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The deep integration of new quality productivity (NQP) with the agricultural sector is an inevitable path to promoting high-quality agricultural development. Based on the panel data of 30 provinces in China from 2012 to 2021, this paper constructs an evaluation index system to measure the NQP and the level of high-quality development of agriculture respectively.It then empirically tests the promotion effect of NQP on high-quality development of agriculture by using the fixed effect model and the threshold effect model. The results indicate that NQP can significantly promote high-quality agricultural development, a conclusion that remains robust after undergoing robustness tests. The results of the heterogeneity analysis show that the impact exhibits regional heterogeneity, with the strongest effect in the eastern region, followed by the central region, and the weakest in the western region. Moreover, in areas with higher levels of marketization, the promoting effect of NQP on high-quality agricultural development is more pronounced. Further research reveals that the relationship between NQP and high-quality agricultural development is characterized by a non-linear feature with increasing marginal effects.The research findings not only provide robust support for the practical application of NQP in agriculture to achieve high-quality development, but also offer significant theoretical foundations for policy-making.
Keywords: New Quality Productivity, High-quality agricultural development, fixed-effects model, threshold effect, Technology market
Received: 27 Mar 2025; Accepted: 30 Jun 2025.
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* Correspondence: Fengjie Xie, School of Economics and Management, Shenyang Agricultural University, Shenyang, Liaoning Province, China
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