Technical Efficiency of Chemical Fertilizer Use and Its Influencing Factors in China's Rice Production

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第一作者： Sun, Zhilu

作者： Sun, Zhilu;Li, Xiande

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关键词： rice production; technical efficiency of chemical fertilizer use (TEFU); stochastic frontier production function (SFPF) model; Tobit model; China

期刊名称：SUSTAINABILITY （ 影响因子：3.251； 五年影响因子：3.473 ）

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年卷期： 2021 年 13 卷 3 期

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收录情况： SCI

摘要： Low technical efficiency and excessive usage of chemical fertilizer in grain production is a problem commonly faced by China and many other developing countries, which leads to serious environment pollution and high environmental governance cost. China is the largest rice producing and consuming country, and several kinds of rice are grown in China and all of which are important edible grain. However, there has been no systematic research on kind difference and provincial difference of technical efficiency of chemical fertilizer use (TEFU) for rice production. Using the data of China's 22 rice production provinces from the China Agricultural Product Cost-Benefit Compilation and the China Statistical Yearbook, this study measures the TEFU for early indica rice, intermediary indica rice, late indica rice, and japonica rice production by using a stochastic frontier production function (SFPF) model, and then analyzes TEFU's influencing factors using a Tobit model and conducts the robustness check using a panel data fixed effect model. We found that, on average, TEFU for four kinds of rice production were improved significantly during 1997-2018, increasing by 67.70%, 39.93%, 14.76%, and 21.88%, respectively. TEFU for China's rice production have significant differences among different kinds and production provinces, and still have large improvement potential. Government's fiscal support to agriculture, agricultural labor productivity, agricultural mechanization, effective irrigation, and implementation of the "Soil Testing and Formulated Fertilization Program" (STFFP) have significant positive impact on TEFU; and natural disaster and fertilizer price have significant negative impact on TEFU.

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