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Front. Sustain. Food Syst.
Sec. Land, Livelihoods and Food Security
Volume 8 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fsufs.2024.1422614
This article is part of the Research Topic Regenerative Agriculture and Support in Changing Policy Environments: Farmers’ Rights, Contract Farming, and Navigating towards Sustainable Practices View all articles

Evaluation of crop structure optimization policy quantitatively and future directions in China: A PMC-Index model approach

Provisionally accepted
Ruiqing Su Ruiqing Su 1Hongjun Sui Hongjun Sui 2*Gaofeng Ren Gaofeng Ren 3Quanxi Wang Quanxi Wang 1
  • 1 Northeastern University, Shenyang, Liaoning Province, China
  • 2 China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou, China
  • 3 Shenyang Normal University, Shenyang, Liaoning Province, China

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    Developing policies to optimize the planting structure is essential to ensure an adequate supply of agricultural products and guarantee food security. However, the rationality and comprehensiveness of China's cropping structure optimization policies require scientific evaluation. Therefore, this research established an evaluation index system for China's planting structure optimization policies using text mining and the PMC-Index model to evaluate eight agricultural cropping structure optimization policies in China since 2003. The results showed that: (1) The PMC-Index showed a general upward trend across the eight policies, with scores ranging from 4.88 to 6.61. (2) Seven of the eight policies were deemed acceptable, while one was classified as low. (3) The Chinese government has long focused on optimizing the structure of agricultural cultivation, and relevant policies have made significant progress in terms of logical connotation and long-term feasibility.However, there is still room for improvement in enhancing regulatory effectiveness and strengthening interdepartmental collaboration. It is recommended that the government develop more flexible and diverse incentive mechanisms, strengthen interdepartmental coordination, expand policy coverage, enhance the comprehensiveness of policy functions, and elevate support for agricultural technology.

    Keywords: Policy evaluation, Food Safety, Crop structure, Policy proposals, China

    Received: 24 Apr 2024; Accepted: 18 Oct 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Su, Sui, Ren and Wang. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Hongjun Sui, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou, China

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