ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Sustain. Food Syst.
Sec. Agricultural and Food Economics
Volume 9 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fsufs.2025.1597762
Impact of Digital Villages Construction on Agricultural Green Production Efficiency: Evidence from China
Provisionally accepted
- Xinyang Normal University, Xinyang, China
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Digital villages construction and agricultural green development are key factors in promoting the high-quality development of agriculture in China. This paper takes the period from 2012 to 2023 as the sample observation period and employs a fixed-effects model to empirically analyze the impact of digital villages construction on agricultural green productivity in 30 provinces of China, as well as the underlying mechanisms. The results show that: (1) From 2012 to 2023, the level of agricultural green production efficiency in China has been steadily increasing, with technological progress being the core driving force for this growth; (2) The level of digital villages construction significantly enhances agricultural green production efficiency. After a series of robustness and endogeneity tests, the results remain valid; (3) Mechanism tests reveal that the level of rural human capital plays a mediating role in this process; (4) The spatial spillover effect test indicates that digital villages construction has a positive spatial spillover effect on agricultural green production efficiency.
Keywords: Digital villages construction, Agricultural green production efficiency, rural human capital, Spatial spillover effect, mediation effect
Received: 24 Mar 2025; Accepted: 21 Apr 2025.
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* Correspondence: Lei Xiankai, Xinyang Normal University, Xinyang, China
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