Jianfeng Xia
Nanjing Audit University, Nanjing 211815, Jiangsu, China.
*Corresponding author: Jianfeng Xia
Abstract
Accelerating the formation of new agricultural productive forces represented by scientific and technological innovation is the inevitable path to achieving high-quality agricultural development, advancing rural revitalization, and building a socialist agricultural power. This paper selects panel data from 30 provinces in China between 2012 and 2022 and explores the impact of scientific and technological innovation on high-quality agricultural development and its underlying driving mechanism by constructing fixed-effects models and mediation effect models. The results indicate that scientific and technological innovation can promote high-quality agricultural development, by conducting robustness checks through the addition of control variables, the results remained significant. The heterogeneity analysis reveals that the driving effect of scientific and technological innovation on the high-quality development of agriculture and rural areas exhibits a heterogeneous impact paradigm across different geographical locations, specifically manifesting as a stronger enabling effect of scientific and technological innovation on the high-quality development of agriculture in major grain-producing areas. The mediation effect indicates that scientific and technological innovation can drive the high-quality development of agriculture by fostering new types of productive forces. Based on this, it is recommended to increase investment in research and development for scientific and technological innovation and create a favorable environment for such innovation, comprehensively tapping into the potential of scientific and technological innovation to empower the high-quality development of agriculture; focus on the integration of scientific and technological innovation achievements with institutional reforms to stimulate the mediating role of new types of productive forces.
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How to cite this paper
Analysis of the Intermediary Effect of New Quality Productivity: Scientific and Technological Innovation Drives High-quality Agricultural Development
How to cite this paper: Jianfeng Xia. (2024) Analysis of the Intermediary Effect of New Quality Productivity: Scientific and Technological Innovation Drives High-quality Agricultural Development. International Journal of Food Science and Agriculture, 8(4), 181-186.
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.26855/ijfsa.2024.12.007