School of Economics and Management (College of Cooperatives), Qingdao Agricultural University, Qingdao, China.
Qingdao Agricultural University, Qingdao, China.
PLoS One. 2023 May 12;18(5):e0285687. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0285687. eCollection 2023.
The key trend for future agricultural growth is efficient, green and sustainable high-quality development, and it is crucial to sort out the factors influencing high-quality agricultural development.
The purpose of this study is to dissect whether environmental regulation has a catalytic effect on quality rural development, through which paths it is driven and whether there is a threshold effect to be further clarified.
In this study, the panel data of 34 provinces in China from 2012 to 2018 are used, and 17 variables are used to construct an evaluation index system, covering four dimensions: agricultural endowment, agricultural output level, agricultural green degree and social sustainability. The high-quality development of agriculture is measured by entropy method. And further, using a baseline regression model and a mediating effects model, we empirically investigated the impact of environmental regulation on high-quality agricultural development and its mechanism of action, and empirically assessed the nonlinear effects of environmental regulation using a threshold regression model.
Environmental control, as noted in the study, considerably assists in the establishment of high-quality agriculture; at the same time, large-scale land management plays a role in mitigating the influence of both. There is a single income threshold impact on rural households between high-quality agricultural growth and environmental regulation, and once that threshold is reached, the influence of high-quality agricultural growth grows. Contribution: According to the research findings, recommendations are made for the design of scientific environmental regulation policies, the establishment of a sound service system for large-scale rural land management, and the establishment of a stable mechanism for rural residents to sustain their income, in order to strengthen the effect of environmental regulation and realize high-quality agricultural growth in China. The marginal contribution of this paper is to enrich the study of the relationship between environmental regulation and high-quality agricultural development, which has theoretical and practical implications for promoting sustainable agricultural development.
未来农业增长的关键趋势是高效、绿色和可持续的高质量发展，因此必须梳理影响农业高质量发展的因素。
本研究旨在剖析环境规制对优质农村发展是否具有催化作用，通过哪些途径驱动，以及是否存在门槛效应需要进一步澄清。
本研究使用了 2012 年至 2018 年中国 34 个省份的面板数据，构建了一个评价指标体系，涵盖了农业禀赋、农业产出水平、农业绿色度和社会可持续性四个维度，用熵值法测度农业高质量发展水平。进一步，利用基准回归模型和中介效应模型，实证检验了环境规制对农业高质量发展的影响及其作用机制，并利用门槛回归模型实证评估了环境规制的非线性效应。
研究表明，环境管制对优质农业的发展有很大的帮助；同时，大规模土地管理在缓解两者的影响方面也发挥了作用。在农村居民的收入和环境规制对优质农业增长的影响之间存在单一的收入门槛效应，一旦达到这个门槛，优质农业增长的影响就会增加。
根据研究结果，为科学的环境规制政策设计、健全的大规模农村土地管理服务体系以及农村居民稳定增收机制的建立提出了建议，以加强环境规制的效果，实现中国农业的高质量增长。本文的边际贡献在于丰富了环境规制与农业高质量发展关系的研究，对促进可持续农业发展具有理论和实践意义。
