Table_1_Can Digitalization Levels Affect Agricultural Total Factor Productivity? Evidence From China.pdf

The agricultural sector faces a food crisis and major challenges in green and sustainable development, and digital technology is an important countermeasure. In this paper, “digital technology” is used as a keyword to construct a regional digitalization level indicator. China's provincial panel data from 2013 to 2020 are adopted as samples to explore the impact of regional digitalization levels on agricultural total factor productivity and its mechanism. The study found the following: (1) Regional digitalization can significantly raise agricultural total factor productivity. (2) Regional digitalization can significantly raise agricultural total factor productivity in economically underdeveloped areas but not in economically developed areas. (3) The mitigation of factor market distortion and large-scale production can strengthen the role of regional digitalization in raising agricultural total factor productivity.

农业领域面临粮食危机与绿色可持续发展的重大挑战，数字技术（digital technology）乃是应对此类困境的重要举措。本文以数字技术为关键词构建区域数字化水平指标，选取2013-2020年中国省级面板数据作为研究样本，探究区域数字化水平对农业全要素生产率的影响及其作用机制。本研究得到如下结论：（1）区域数字化可显著提升农业全要素生产率；（2）区域数字化对经济欠发达地区的农业全要素生产率提升效果显著，但对经济发达地区无显著促进作用；（3）要素市场扭曲的缓解与规模化生产能够强化区域数字化对农业全要素生产率的提升效应。