Acta Agriculturae Zhejiangensis ›› 2022, Vol. 34 ›› Issue (8): 1784-1795.DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1004-1524.2022.08.22

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Calculation and analysis of contribution rate of technological progress of agriculture in Zhejiang Province, China: based on stochastic frontier analysis

MAO Xiaohong(), FU Linlin, ZHANG Liu, WANG Jin, MAO Xiaobao*()   

  1. Institute of Rural Development, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou 310021, China
  • Received:2022-03-14 Online:2022-08-25 Published:2022-08-26
  • Contact: MAO Xiaobao

Abstract:

In the present study, based on the county-level panel data, stochastic frontier analysis was introduced to calculate the contribution rate of technological progress of agriculture in Zhejiang in 2014-2019. It was shown that the growth of agricultural output in Zhejiang in 2014-2019 was mainly driven by the improvement of technological progress rate. In 2019, the contribution rate of technological progress of agriculture in Zhejiang reached 64.30%. In 2014-2019, the narrow technological progress rate showed a steady increasing trend, which was mainly driven by neutral technological progress. Changes in the agricultural industry structure affected the contribution rate of technological progress of agriculture via its influence on the application of related technologies and the scale of production and operation. Three agricultural development types were divided in Zhejiang as plain type, coastal type and mountain type. Among them capital and land had bigger impact on the mountain type, while labor had bigger impact on the plain type. Costal type showed the highest change rate of technological efficiency.

Key words: agricultural science and technology, total factor productivity, contribution rate of technological progress of agriculture

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