IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/gam/jagris/v14y2024i11p1990-d1515347.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Revitalizing Agricultural Economy Through Rural E-Commerce? Experience from China’s Revolutionary Old Areas

Author

Listed:
  • Huwei Wen

    (School of Economics and Management, Nanchang University, Nanchang 330031, China)

  • Yulin Huang

    (Ji Luan Academy, Nanchang University, Nanchang 330031, China)

  • Jiayi Shi

    (School of Economics and Management, Nanchang University, Nanchang 330031, China)

Abstract

Many of the world’s less developed regions may not be able to improve the well-being of rural residents through agricultural revitalization because of their remoteness from agricultural markets. Using the county-level data set of China’s underdeveloped old revolutionary base areas from 2010 to 2021, this paper takes the policy planning of rural e-commerce as event intervention to investigate the driving role of the digital product market on agricultural economic development. Empirical results show that rural e-commerce planning policy has significantly promoted the agricultural added value of the pilot counties, and the digital market is the key driving factor of the agricultural economic growth in these underdeveloped areas. Both food production and livestock output have increased significantly as a result of e-commerce policies. Considering the potential bias of the bidirectional fixed effect estimators of staggered differences-in-differences (DID), this study uses heterogeneous robust estimators to verify the growth effect of the agricultural economy. Specifically, digital agricultural markets have significantly promoted agricultural mechanization and significantly improved agricultural total factor productivity. Moreover, empirical evidence does not support transmission mechanisms for off-farm employment and agricultural entrepreneurship. The findings can help less developed countries and regions develop policies to expand the agricultural markets with digital dividends, thereby promoting the development of the agricultural economy.

Suggested Citation

  • Huwei Wen & Yulin Huang & Jiayi Shi, 2024. "Revitalizing Agricultural Economy Through Rural E-Commerce? Experience from China’s Revolutionary Old Areas," Agriculture, MDPI, vol. 14(11), pages 1-19, November.
  • Handle: RePEc:gam:jagris:v:14:y:2024:i:11:p:1990-:d:1515347
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.mdpi.com/2077-0472/14/11/1990/pdf
    Download Restriction: no

    File URL: https://www.mdpi.com/2077-0472/14/11/1990/
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Birkhaeuser, Dean & Evenson, Robert E & Feder, Gershon, 1991. "The Economic Impact of Agricultural Extension: A Review," Economic Development and Cultural Change, University of Chicago Press, vol. 39(3), pages 607-650, April.
    2. Mahadi Bahari & Ibrahim Arpaci & Oguzhan Der & Fatih Akkoyun & Ali Ercetin, 2024. "Driving Agricultural Transformation: Unraveling Key Factors Shaping IoT Adoption in Smart Farming with Empirical Insights," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 16(5), pages 1-22, March.
    3. John Pender & Berhanu Gebremedhin & Saumuel Benin & Simeon Ehui, 2001. "Strategies for Sustainable Agricultural Development in the Ethiopian Highlands," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, vol. 83(5), pages 1231-1240.
    4. Mohammed, Kamaldeen & Batung, Evans & Saaka, Sulemana Ansumah & Kansanga, Moses Mosonsieyiri & Luginaah, Isaac, 2023. "Determinants of mechanized technology adoption in smallholder agriculture: Implications for agricultural policy," Land Use Policy, Elsevier, vol. 129(C).
    5. Xavier Irz & Lin Lin & Colin Thirtle & Steve Wiggins, 2001. "Agricultural Productivity Growth and Poverty Alleviation," Development Policy Review, Overseas Development Institute, vol. 19(4), pages 449-466, December.
    6. Li, Wei & He, Weiwei, 2024. "Revenue-increasing effect of rural e-commerce: A perspective of farmers' market integration and employment growth," Economic Analysis and Policy, Elsevier, vol. 81(C), pages 482-493.
    7. Wenmei Liao & Ruolan Yuan & Xu Zhang & Na Li & Hailan Qiu, 2024. "Balancing Acts: Unveiling the Dynamics of Revitalization Policies in China’s Old Revolutionary Areas of Gannan," Agriculture, MDPI, vol. 14(3), pages 1-19, February.
    8. Klarin Tomislav, 2018. "The Concept of Sustainable Development: From its Beginning to the Contemporary Issues," Zagreb International Review of Economics and Business, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Zagreb, vol. 21(1), pages 67-94, May.
    9. Nie, Changfei & Ye, Susu & Feng, Yuan, 2024. "Place-based policy and urban green technology innovation: Evidence from the revitalization of old revolutionary base areas in China," Economic Analysis and Policy, Elsevier, vol. 81(C), pages 1257-1272.
    10. Juan D. Borrero & Jesús Mariscal, 2022. "A Case Study of a Digital Data Platform for the Agricultural Sector: A Valuable Decision Support System for Small Farmers," Agriculture, MDPI, vol. 12(6), pages 1-15, May.
    11. He, Congxian & Zhou, Can & Wen, Huwei, 2024. "Improving the consumer welfare of rural residents through public support policies: A study on old revolutionary areas in China," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 91(C).
    12. Delphine Renard & David Tilman, 2019. "National food production stabilized by crop diversity," Nature, Nature, vol. 571(7764), pages 257-260, July.
    13. Jean‐Paul Chavas & Céline Nauges, 2020. "Uncertainty, Learning, and Technology Adoption in Agriculture," Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 42(1), pages 42-53, March.
    14. Huwei Wen & Zisong Zeng, 2024. "Impact of Non-Agricultural Employment on Food Security in China’s Old Revolutionary Base Areas," Agriculture, MDPI, vol. 14(6), pages 1-20, May.
    15. Stefan Seifert & Christoph Kahle & Silke Hüttel, 2021. "Price Dispersion in Farmland Markets: What Is the Role of Asymmetric Information?," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 103(4), pages 1545-1568, August.
    16. Abate, Gashaw T. & Abay, Kibrom A. & Chamberlin, Jordan & Kassim, Yumna & Spielman, David J. & Paul Jr Tabe-Ojong, Martin, 2023. "Digital tools and agricultural market transformation in Africa: Why are they not at scale yet, and what will it take to get there?," Food Policy, Elsevier, vol. 116(C).
    17. Chu, Angus C. & Peretto, Pietro F. & Wang, Xilin, 2022. "Agricultural revolution and industrialization," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 158(C).
    18. Callaway, Brantly & Sant’Anna, Pedro H.C., 2021. "Difference-in-Differences with multiple time periods," Journal of Econometrics, Elsevier, vol. 225(2), pages 200-230.
    19. William H. Nicholls, 1961. "Industrialization, Factor Markets, and Agricultural Development," Journal of Political Economy, University of Chicago Press, vol. 69(4), pages 319-319.
    20. Manolis Manioudis & Giorgos Meramveliotakis, 2022. "Broad strokes towards a grand theory in the analysis of sustainable development: a return to the classical political economy," New Political Economy, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 27(5), pages 866-878, September.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Ginevra Malta & Fulvio Plescia & Stefania Zerbo & Maria Gabriella Verso & Serena Matera & Alenka Skerjanc & Emanuele Cannizzaro, 2024. "Work and Environmental Factors on Job Burnout: A Cross-Sectional Study for Sustainable Work," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 16(8), pages 1-12, April.
    2. Rui Li & Xin Chen, 2022. "Reverse Logistics Network Design under Disruption Risk for Third-Party Logistics Providers," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(22), pages 1-24, November.
    3. Khodran Alzahrani & Mubashar Ali & Muhammad Imran Azeem & Bader Alhafi Alotaibi, 2023. "Efficacy of Public Extension and Advisory Services for Sustainable Rice Production," Agriculture, MDPI, vol. 13(5), pages 1-17, May.
    4. Doris Läpple, 2023. "Information about Climate Change Mitigation: What Do Farmers Think?," EuroChoices, The Agricultural Economics Society, vol. 22(1), pages 74-80, April.
    5. Kai Xu, 2023. "Challenges, Opportunities and Future Paths: Environmental Governance of Big Data Initiatives in China," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 15(13), pages 1-15, June.
    6. Gantian Zheng & Weiwei Wang & Chang Jiang & Fan Jiang, 2023. "Can Rural Industrial Convergence Improve the Total Factor Productivity of Agricultural Environments: Evidence from China," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 15(23), pages 1-20, November.
    7. Andrei Coca & Manuela Rozalia Gabor & Irina Olimpia Susanu, 2023. "Do Innovation Metrics Reflect Sustainable Policy Making in Europe? A Comparative Study Case on the Carpathian and Alpine Mountain Regions," Mathematics, MDPI, vol. 11(6), pages 1-31, March.
    8. Biaowen Xu & Xueli Chen, 2024. "Industrial Agglomeration, Land Consolidation, and Agricultural Energy Inefficiency in China: An Analysis Using By-Production Technology and Simultaneous Equations Model," Agriculture, MDPI, vol. 14(11), pages 1-22, October.
    9. Weisheng Mao & Yexi Zhong, 2024. "The Influence of Demand-Based Policy Instruments on Urban Innovation Quality—Evidence from 269 Cities in China," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 16(7), pages 1-16, March.
    10. Meqbel M. Aliedan & Mansour A. Alyahya & Ibrahim A. Elshaer & Abu Elnasr E. Sobaih, 2023. "Who Is Going Green? Determinants of Green Investment Intention in the Saudi Food Industry," Agriculture, MDPI, vol. 13(5), pages 1-17, May.
    11. Can Li & Qi He & Han Ji & Shengguo Yu & Jiao Wang, 2023. "Reexamining the Impact of Global Value Chain Participation on Regional Economic Growth: New Evidence Based on a Nonlinear Model and Spatial Spillover Effects with Panel Data from Chinese Cities," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 15(18), pages 1-31, September.
    12. Azam Ghezelbash & Jay Liu & Seyed Hamed Fahimifard & Vahid Khaligh, 2024. "Exploring the Influence of the Digital Economy on Energy, Economic, and Environmental Resilience: A Multinational Study across Varied Carbon Emission Groups," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 16(7), pages 1-22, April.
    13. Vivek Arulnathan & Mohammad Davoud Heidari & Maurice Doyon & Eric P. H. Li & Nathan Pelletier, 2022. "Economic Indicators for Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment: Going beyond Life Cycle Costing," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 15(1), pages 1-27, December.
    14. Ali Yeganeh & Mahdi Parvizi Amineh & Alireza Shadman & Sandile Charles Shongwe & Seyed Mojtaba Mohasel, 2023. "Combination of Sequential Sampling Technique with GLR Control Charts for Monitoring Linear Profiles Based on the Random Explanatory Variables," Mathematics, MDPI, vol. 11(7), pages 1-21, March.
    15. Adolf Akwei Acquaye & Fred Amofa Yamoah & Taofeeq Ibn-Mohammed & Enoch Quaye & David Eshun Yawson, 2023. "Equitable Global Value Chain and Production Network as a Driver for Enhanced Sustainability in Developing Economies," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 15(19), pages 1-23, October.
    16. Xiaojing Zhao & Xuke Li & Guoqu Deng & Yanling Xi, 2023. "Decoupling Relationship between Resource Environment and High-Quality Economic Development in the Yellow River Basin," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 15(12), pages 1-18, June.
    17. Dethier, Jean-Jacques & Effenberger, Alexandra, 2012. "Agriculture and development: A brief review of the literature," Economic Systems, Elsevier, vol. 36(2), pages 175-205.
    18. Chao Wu & Ziyu Liu & Jinquan Liu & Mingze Du, 2022. "Nonlinear Effects of Economic Policy Uncertainty Shocks on Carbon Emissions in China: Evidence from Province-Level Data," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 19(23), pages 1-16, December.
    19. Jingyi Wang & Qingning Lin & Xuebiao Zhang, 2023. "How Does Digital Economy Promote Agricultural Development? Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa," Agriculture, MDPI, vol. 14(1), pages 1-19, December.
    20. Chun-Chih Chen & Yu-Shing Chang, 2024. "Leveraging Circular Economy Metrics for Data-Driven Forecasting of Solid Waste Production in Europe," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 16(3), pages 1-15, January.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:gam:jagris:v:14:y:2024:i:11:p:1990-:d:1515347. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: MDPI Indexing Manager (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://www.mdpi.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.