SI Zengchuo,NI Chen.The logic, effects and mechanism of digital economy empowering the total factor productivity of agriculture [J]. Journal of Shanxi Agricultural University(Social Science Edition),2026,25(1):59⁃73.
SI Zengchuo,NI Chen.The logic, effects and mechanism of digital economy empowering the total factor productivity of agriculture [J]. Journal of Shanxi Agricultural University(Social Science Edition),2026,25(1):59⁃73. DOI: 10.13842/j.cnki.issn1671-816X.2026.01.006.
The logic, effects and mechanism of digital economy empowering the total factor productivity of agriculture
Promoting the deep integration of the digital economy and the real economy is one of the core contents of building a modern industrial system, endowing agriculture with new connotations and providing new opportunities and new ideas for solving the fundamental problems of agriculture. Key findings include: Firstly, the digital economy can significantly improve agricultural total factor productivity. Secondly, the result of the influencing mechanism test shows that the digital economy has a mediating effect on the agricultural total factor productivity with the development degree of e⁃commerce and the human capital structure as the mediating variables; the development level of e⁃commerce and human capital structure can strengthen the effect of digital economy on agricultural total factor productivity; the digital economy development has formed a good interactive relationship with e⁃commerce and human capital. Thirdly, the results of heterogeneity tests show that the enhancing effect of digital economy on agricultural total factor productivity is related to the development level of digital economy and agricultural resource endowment in each province. Fourthly, quantile regression results show that there are structural differences in the impact of digital economy on agricultural total factor productivity. In other words, with the increase of agricultural total factor productivity, the impact of digital economy on it gradually decreases at first, but when the agricultural total factor productivity reaches a certain critical value, the impact gradually increases. Finally, the article proposes countermeasures and suggestions to promote digital economy and improve agricultural total factor productivity.
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