农村人口老龄化与农业绿色发展: 促进或抑制?

Rural population aging and agricultural green development: promote or inhibit?

  • 摘要: 为明晰农村人口老龄化对农业绿色发展的影响及其机理, 本研究基于2003—2020年中国31个省份(不包括中国香港、澳门和台湾地区)的面板数据, 利用固定效应模型和调节效应模型, 实证分析了农村人口老龄化对农业绿色发展的影响机理。研究发现: 1)我国农业绿色发展水平逐步提升, 但呈现非均衡的发展特征。2)农村人口老龄化会显著抑制农业绿色发展, 其抑制效应在低老龄化区域更为突出; 分维度异质性检验发现, 农村人口老龄化会抑制资源节约和经济效应, 而对环境友好具有显著的促进作用, 对生态保育不具有影响。3)农村人口老龄化对农业绿色发展的影响存在U型的非线性关系, 且样本量主要分布在转折点左侧, 边际影响以负向为主。4)农业社会化服务能够有效缓解农村人口老龄化对农业绿色发展的抑制效应。为加快推进农业绿色发展, 建议因地施策推进农业绿色发展, 不断缩小各地发展差异; 着力提升老龄农户的人力资本积累效应, 大力培育新型职业农民; 支持和鼓励各类新型经营主体加快农业社会化服务供给, 积极引导老龄农户有序融入社会化服务体系; 实现老龄农户与现代农业有机衔接, 推进农业绿色生产。

     

    Abstract: Clarifying the mechanism by which rural population aging affects green agricultural development is of great significance for accelerating the green transformation of agriculture in China. Based on the panel data of 31 provinces (excluding Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan of China) in China from 2003 to 2020, this study measured the level of agricultural green development in China and empirically analyzed the influence mechanism of rural population aging on agricultural green development using the fixed- and moderating-effect models. The results show that: 1) The level of agricultural green development in China is consistently enhancing; however, inter-provincial disparities demonstrate an expanding tendency, and the dynamic adjustment of regional agricultural green development is conspicuous, featuring an overall unbalanced development. 2) Rural population aging significantly inhibits green agricultural development and this inhibitory effect is more prominent in low-aging regions. According to the fractal heterogeneity test, rural population aging inhibits resource conservation and economic effects, plays a significant role in promoting environmental friendliness, but has no effect on ecological conservation. In general, the negative effects of aging on the rural population outweigh the promotional effects, thereby inhibiting green agricultural development. 3) The impact of rural population aging on agricultural green development exhibits a U-shaped nonlinear relationship, with an inflection point of 0.16. Because most of the sample is distributed to the left of this inflection point, the marginal impact is predominantly negative. 4) According to the development of China’s agricultural socialized services, agricultural socialized services can notably enhance the level of agricultural green development. Meanwhile, it can exert a regulatory function in the process by which rural population aging influences green agricultural development; that is, it can effectively mitigate the inhibitory impact of rural population aging on green agricultural development. Therefore, local policies should be adopted to promote green agricultural development and constantly narrow the development differences between regions. Efforts should be made to enhance the human capital accumulation effect on elderly farmers, vigorously cultivate new professional farmers, support and encourage all types of new business entities to accelerate the supply of socialized agricultural services, actively guide elderly farmers to integrate into the social service system in an orderly manner, realize the organic connection between elderly farmers and modern agriculture, and promote green agricultural production.

     

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