Modern Agricultural Development and Rural Revitalization
Creative leisure agriculture is an effective way to comprehensively promote rural revitalization and promote urban-rural integration development. The sustainable development of creative leisure agriculture must grasp consumers’ perceptions systematically. Thematic creative farm is a new model of creative leisure agriculture in Jiangsu Province. This study takes Jiangsu thematic creative farm as an example, using a combination of text analysis and IPA model to analyze the characteristics of tourists’ landscape preference, construct a system of landscape perception elements, conduct quantitative evaluation and propose improvement suggestions based on UGC data. The results show that the positive emotions are apparent; the satisfaction and attention levels are overall high; creative landscapes and creative experiences are priorities; facility service experience needs to be further improved. Based on this, suggestions are put forward from four aspects: improving infrastructure services, enriching landscape creative expression, creating multiple interactive experiences and strengthening scientific operations.
The industry of Anji white tea as the core agricultural industry is an important starting point for rural revitalization in Anji, Zhejiang. Establishment of tea planting regionalization in Anji County will provide favorable support for planters to build an ecological tea plantation in this area. Based on meteorological observation data such as temperature and relative humidity, basic geographic data and soil data from 6 national meteorological observation stations and 49 encrypted automatic meteorological stations in Anji County and its surrounding areas, nine factors of meteorology, topography and soil were selected to carry out the fine simulation of spatial distribution, and the AHP method was used to establish the evaluation model of tea cultivation suitability zoning. Then the comprehensive regionalization of tea planting suitability was completed. The results show that the most suitable area for tea planting in Anji County is 623.09 km2, which is distributed in Meixi Town, Xilong Township, Dipu Street, Changshuo Street and other areas in the north and middle of Anji County. The suitable area for tea planting is 622.46 km2, which is distributed in the north and middle of the county, such as Dipu Street, Xiaofeng Town, Zhangwu Town, the west of Hanggai Town, and the north of Tianhuangping town; The dimensions of unsuitable cultivation area is 441.43 km2, which is mainly distributed in the south of the county, including Zhangcun Town, Baofu Town, Shangshu Town, south of Tianhuangping town and Shanchuan town. Through the regionalization of the suitability of tea cultivation in Anji County, this paper provides a reference for the selection of geographical location for Anji white tea planting, and provides ideas for the high-quality production of tea seedlings.
The study aims to assess the level of agricultural modernization of Beidahuang Group Co., Ltd., a typical leading agricultural enterprise, in order to clarify its development status and provide a reference for the modernization development of other key agricultural enterprises. The index system of agricultural modernization level was constructed from five dimensions by using the multi-index comprehensive evaluation method, and the Delphi method was used to measure the weights and calculate the final score. The findings revealed that the comprehensive evaluation score of Beidahuang Group’s agricultural modernization increased from 0.296 in 2008 to 0.704 in 2022. Despite differences in development foundations, modes, and speeds among its subsidiaries, the overall level of agricultural modernization consistently improved during this period, and the overall pace was basically the same. The overall level of agricultural modernization of Beidahuang Group was in the basic realization stage, especially in the aspects of mechanization, informatization, scientific and technological advancement, talent cultivation, and sustainable development, which played a leading role in demonstration for other leading agricultural enterprises. The paper concluded with suggestions for further development, including maintaining high-quality agricultural product supply, increasing investment in technology and its applications, enhancing talent cultivation, promoting industry integration, and advancing sustainable agricultural practices.
This study aims to explore the logic behind the integrated development of agriculture, forestry, culture, tourism and health industries in Shanxi Province. Taking the Wutai Mountain Scenic Area as an example, an evaluation system was constructed, and entropy weight TOPSIS model and coupling coordination degree model were applied to assess its level of development and the extent of coupling and coordination from 2018 to 2022. The results show that Wutai Mountain takes agriculture and forestry as the starting point, landscape as the background, ecology as the foundation, culture as the soul, health care as the carrier, tourism as the link, and new quality productive forces enabling industrial integration. Affected by the epidemic, the change of tourist arrivals and income fluctuated greatly. In 2022, the C value of the industry integration of agriculture, forestry, culture, tourism and recreation in Wutai Mountain was 0.664, indicating the highest development level. All development aspects show the economic level > ecological level > social level > cultural level, but also need to focus on the social and cultural aspects. The degree of coupling coordination in 2021 and 2022 was good coordination. Development optimization paths, such as improving industrial quality, enriching product formats, expanding marketing models, revitalizing stock assets, strengthening scientific and technological support and cohesion of industrial integration are put forward. This study provides an evaluation system and scientific basis for the integrated development of agriculture, forestry, culture, tourism and health industries.
Modern agricultural industrial park is the spatial carrier of regional agricultural modernization construction and an important starting point for implementing the strategy of rural revitalization. Analyzing its spatial distribution characteristics and influencing factors is of great significance for promoting the high-quality development of agriculture and rural areas and increasing farmers' income and making them rich. Taking the provincial modern agricultural industrial parks built in Guangdong Province as the research objects, this paper analyzes the spatial distribution characteristics and influencing factors of modern agricultural industrial parks in Guangdong Province by using methods and tools such as nearest proximity index, nuclear density estimation, imbalance index, spatial autocorrelation analysis and geographic detector. The research indicates that: (1) modern agricultural industrial parks in Guangdong Province are mainly distributed in the Pearl River Delta and north of Guangdong, and the whole province and different regions are spatially clustered. The estimation of core density shows that modern agricultural industrial parks in Guangdong Province have formed a contiguous distribution pattern of "one heart and three cores" based on the Pearl River Delta region. (2) The distribution of modern agricultural industrial parks in Guangdong Province is not balanced. Among them, the Pearl River Delta region has the largest gap between cities and prefectures, while the gap in northern Guangdong is relatively small. County spatial autocorrelation analysis shows that there are obvious agglomeration areas of modern agricultural industrial parks in Guangdong Province, and there are three counties with obvious high-high agglomeration, namely Huangpu District in the Pearl River Delta region, Huazhou District and Dianbai District in western Guangdong Province. (3) Guangdong Province mainly relies on planting industry to build modern agricultural industrial parks, and mostly grain and oil planting, while taking into account the common development of other types. The agglomeration core of various modern agricultural industrial parks is different, but the overall characteristic of "multi-point agglomeration" is stable. (4) The total amount of farmland, water conservancy and irrigation, specialized agricultural towns, leading agricultural enterprises and other 12 factors have different degrees of influence on the spatial distribution of modern agricultural industrial parks in Guangdong Province, and there is a double-factor interaction among all factors, among which the leading agricultural enterprises and other factors have the strongest interaction. Modern agricultural industrial park is the result of a series of factors. In the future, we can promote the high quality development of modern agricultural industrial parks in Guangdong Province from the aspects of space planning, system design and local construction.
In order to mitigate the adverse effects of drought on the development of summer maize seedlings caused by climate change, using ‘Zhengdan 958’ as experimental material, the effects of different treatment combinations on soil moisture and growth of maize seedling were studied. The results showed that the soil moisture content increased with the depth of the soil layer, and the pattern was moist soil, wheat straw returning to the field>normal moisture content, wheat straw returning to the field>moist soil, wheat straw not returning to the field>dry soil, wheat straw returning to the field>normal moisture content, wheat straw not returning to the field>dry soil, wheat straw not returning to the field. SPAD value, photosynthetic rate and yield showed the same trend, normal moisture content, wheat straw returning to the field>moist soil, wheat straw returning to the field>moist soil, wheat straw not returning to the field>normal moisture content, wheat straw not returning to the field>dry soil, wheat straw returning to the field>dry soil, wheat straw not returning to the field. Therefore, compared with the removal of stubble, plain stubble can better improve the soil water environment, increase the emergence rate and photosynthetic rate of maize, and increase the yield, which can be widely applied in production.
The study aimed to investigate the effects of combining rapeseed straw returning and chemical fertilizer application on soil nutrient composition, agronomic traits and yield of highland barley in Tibet, to provide a scientific basis for the efficient utilization of rapeseed straw resources as fertilizer in this region. Field experiments were conducted using the cultivar ‘Zangqing 3000’. Four levels of fertilization were applied (urea and diammonium phosphate at rates of 0, 60, 120 and 180 kg/hm2, and 0, 75, 150 and 225 kg/hm2, respectively), alongside four levels of rapeseed straw returning (0, 1500, 3000 and 6000 kg/hm2). The results showed that rapeseed straw returning predominantly influenced the total phosphorus and organic matter content in the topsoil, while the fertilization primarily affected total nitrogen and phosphorus content, with no significant effect on other soil nutrients. In terms of agronomic traits such as basic seedling number, plant height, effective panicle number and yield of highland barley, there were significant differences between different fertilization levels. At the same time, there were also significant differences in basic seedling number and yield between different straw retuning treatments. The integration of straw returning and chemical fertilizer application was found to enhance barley yield compared to the exclusive use of chemical fertilizers. The maximum barley yield was achieved with a straw returning of 6000 kg/hm2 (full returning) and application of urea and diammonium phosphate at 180 and 225 kg/hm2, respectively, resulting in a 4.03% yield increase compared to the yield without straw returning at equivalent fertilization levels. In conclusion, in Tibet, rapeseed straw returning combined with chemical fertilizer application can not only enhances soil nutrient, but also significantly increase the yield of highland barley.
Rural e-commerce is a new engine to assist rural revitalization. Measuring the efficiency of e-commerce poverty alleviation and analyzing its spatial characteristics is of great significance to promote rural revitalization. This paper proposes a method for measuring the poverty alleviation efficiency of e-commerce at county level based on data envelopment analysis to statically measure 84 counties in Shaanxi Province and analyse their spatial characteristics. The results of the study show that the mean value of the comprehensive efficiency of e-commerce poverty alleviation in 84 counties in Guanzhong, northern Shaanxi and southern Shaanxi is 0.613, the comprehensive efficiency of e-commerce poverty alleviation in most of the districts and counties of Shaanxi is low. northern Shaanxi has the highest comprehensive efficiency of e- commerce poverty alleviation, and the gap with Guanzhong and southern Shaanxi is large. There is the problem of uneven development of e-commerce poverty alleviation in counties of Shaanxi. In terms of spatial characteristics, the development of e-commerce is still at a relatively early stage in counties of Shaanxi, failing to form similar industrial clusters. Based on this, opinions and suggestions on promoting the development of e-commerce poverty alleviation are put forward.
To select colored rice varieties with good ornamental value, strong resistance, high yield, and stable characteristics, and are suitable for “rice planting” in Dongguan and even South China region, 14 colored rice varieties with purple leaves were introduced to carry out the early and late planting trials. The agronomic traits such as leaf color, plant height, lodging resistance and yield were investigated and recorded during the whole growth period. These data were used for the comparative analysis between early and late planting of the same variety or among different varieties. The results showed that there were significant differences in leaf color, growth period, plant height, and yield between early and late planting period of the same variety. There were also significant differences in leaf color and agronomic traits among 14 colored rice varieties. According to the analysis of various characters, the colored rice varieties suitable for early and late planting were selected. The most recommended varieties for early production are 'Shengzi', 'Huazi','Youzi' and 'Ziyehongmi', followed by 'Hangzi', 'Jianzi No.2', 'Aizi' and 'Yingzi'. The most recommended varieties for late production are 'Shengzi', 'Huazi', and 'Youzi', followed by 'Jianzi No.2', 'Aizi', 'Yingzi', 'Ziyehongmi', 'Jiangzi No.1', 'Jiangzi No.2', and 'Zihong No.1'. The color of 'Yingzi' is the most beautiful, but due to its problems such as relatively short plants and low yields, the variety only can be planted small scale for the beauty of "paddy field paintings". The results can be used to guide the variety selection for "paddy field paintings", and promote the construction of beautiful countryside and grain harvest, and the high-quality development of the Greater Bay Area cities.
The problem of rural environmental pollution constrains the development of urbanization, and exploring the long-term mechanism of governance is the weak point of the current research related to rural environmental governance. This paper aims to make up for the shortcomings of existing research. In this paper, the evolutionary game model of rural environmental pollution management is established by taking the three parties of local government, township enterprises and farmers as game subjects. Then the Python software is used to simulate the strategy evolution path of the three parties. It is found that the incentives received by the government for active regulation as well as the costs, the costs of negative government regulation and the losses due to negative regulation, and the total benefits and costs of active implementation of environmental protection strategies by rural enterprises all play an important role in influencing the stability of the long-term mechanism for rural environmental pollution control. According to the conclusion of evolutionary game, we propose to construct a long-term mechanism for rural environmental pollution control in terms of rule of law mechanism, stable financial investment mechanism, administrative supervision and reward and punishment mechanism, science and technology innovation-driven mechanism and multi-object participation mechanism.
Chitosan is a natural, safe, and cheap product of chitin deacetylation, which is widely used in industry production due to its own features. In this paper, the function and application of chitosan and its nanoparticles in seed treatment, soil remediation and increasing efficiency of fertilizer and pesticide synergy were reviewed. Chitosan can be used for seed treatment and soil amendment, promoting plant growth and inducing plant tolerance to abiotic and biological stresses. In recent years, chitosan has also been used to synthesize chitosan nanoparticles, as carriers of fertilizers, pesticides, fungicides and microelements, in order to achieve the purpose of reducing stockpiles and increasing efficiency, and promote the sustainable development of agriculture. Finally, future research directions of chitosan and its nanoparticles in agriculture were prospected.
As the strategy for rural revitalization is progressively implemented, rural areas are confronted with numerous challenges in disaster prevention, reduction and relief, especially frequent emergencies and relatively weak response and self-rescue capabilities. This study aims to analyze the problems of insufficient emergency science popularization ability and low science popularization efficiency in current rural emergency management in China, and explore corresponding solutions. This research has found that improving the emergency scientific literacy of rural residents is the fundamental way to enhance their ability to respond to emergencies. And proposes a series of targeted suggestions based on the specific situation of rural areas and the characteristics of residents, including strengthening the construction of emergency science popularization teams in rural areas as a key measure, establishing a demand oriented science popularization concept to guide practice, innovating emergency science popularization methods as the main approach, optimizing and enriching emergency science popularization resources as a guarantee and support. The aim is to strengthen the residents' preventive awareness and scientific response capabilities through emergency science education, so as to provide strong support for China's emergency management and disaster prevention and mitigation efforts.
In the context of promoting the ecological civilization in China, carbon fixation and efficiency enhancement in agricultural industry has been listed in the "carbon peaking and carbon neutrality goals", and low-carbon agriculture has emerged accordingly. Biodiversity is the basis of ecosystem functions and services, and plays a key role in the agricultural decarbonization. Protecting biodiversity in farmland and fully exploiting its ecological effects is an important approach to achieve agricultural decarbonization. In this study, the literature from 2010 to 2022 in the database of Web of Science was selected. Using the keyword co-occurrence and cluster analysis of CiteSpace bibliometric software, the international research trends and topics of biodiversity in low-carbon agriculture were analyzed, and the functions of biodiversity were summarized. The results showed that the conservation and management of biodiversity was the hot topics in low-carbon agriculture. Biological control was the main practice for biodiversity to achieve agricultural decarbonization. By evaluating the ecological value of the diversity of different biological taxa, it was found that biodiversity could increase the ecological and economic value of the agricultural production process. Future research can explore biodiversity-based multifunctional agricultural development at the ecosystem and landscape scales, thus better contributing to the successful achievement of the “dual carbon” goals.
This study aims to explore the importance of talents and science and technology work for promoting China's agricultural modernization and rural revitalization strategy. By analyzing the practice cases of the Human Resources Development Center of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs and the China Association of Agricultural Science Societies, the key measures and their effects in strengthening the construction of agricultural talent team and scientific and technological innovation are systematically expounded. In terms of talents, the study points out the specific practices of consolidating the foundation of talents, building a talent training platform, and optimizing the talent selection mechanism. By building a multi-level and wide-field talent training system, a large number of high-quality professionals have been transported to the agricultural field. At the same time, by establishing and improving the talent recommendation brand, the identification and promotion of outstanding talents have been effectively promoted. In terms of science and technology work, the key measures include strengthening scientific and technological strategic planning, building an academic exchange platform, and developing agricultural science and technology volunteer services, to improve the ability of scientific and technological innovation, strengthen the transformation and application of scientific and technological achievements, and improve the efficiency and quality of agricultural production. The research conclusions show that talents and science and technology are the dual driving forces for realizing the dream of agricultural power. Only by implementing the strategy of strengthening agriculture with talents and innovation-driven development strategy can we ensure the sustainable and healthy development of agriculture and provide a solid guarantee for the construction of agricultural power.
This article explores the guiding significance of the 'all-encompassing approach to food' in fostering agricultural science innovation. It delves into the current challenges and opportunities in agricultural science innovation and proposes ideas and strategies under the guidance of the 'all-encompassing approach to food'. The paper argues that 'all-encompassing approach to food' is the strategic direction of national food security, which requires us to start from better meeting people's needs for a better life, develop food resources in all directions and ways, enrich food varieties, and ensure effective supply of various foods. The paper highlights the existing predicaments in agricultural science innovation, such as the scarcity of foundational data, the disconnection between agricultural production and technology, the uneven distribution of agricultural talents, the sluggish evolution of agricultural logistics systems, and the disparate levels of scientific research across disciplines. It is needed to strengthen gene and phenotype research, establish AI agriculture platform, cultivate compound talents, optimize agricultural product circulation channels, and promote cross-disciplinary communication and cooperation. And it also proposes specific measures for agricultural science innovation such as grasping the initiative of food security, encouraging original innovation of agricultural germplasm resources, developing facility agriculture and smart agriculture, developing biotechnology and bio-industry, promoting structural optimization of agricultural supply system, high-quality and efficient development. Agricultural science innovation under the guidance of 'all-encompassing approach to food' will become an important driving force for future agricultural development and contribute to food security and national health.
Taking the improvement of rural living environment in Shanshan County, Xinjiang as the research sample, a field survey was conducted on the situation of rural living environment improvement in Shanshan County, Xinjiang through questionnaire survey and interviews. Based on the strategic plan for rural revitalization, an evaluation index system for the effectiveness of rural living environment improvement in Shanshan County, Xinjiang was constructed. The weight of the index was determined by Analytic Hierarchy Process, and the overall evaluation of the effectiveness of six rural living environment improvement tasks in Shanshan County was finally conducted by fuzzy comprehensive evaluation method. The evaluation results indicate that the overall evaluation value of rural living environment improvement in Shanshan County is 2.9186, of which the evaluation value of village planning and management effect is 2.8817, the evaluation value of toilet revolution and fecal pollution treatment effect is 2.8392, the evaluation value of rural domestic sewage treatment effect is 2.8816, the evaluation value of rural domestic waste treatment effect is 3.1291, the evaluation value of village appearance improvement effect is 3.1480, and the evaluation value of construction and management mechanism effect is 2.610. Based on the research results of the evaluation of the effectiveness of rural living environment improvement in Shanshan County, the problems in the process of rural living environment improvement in Shanshan County are analyzed. In order to improve the effectiveness of rural living environment improvement in Shanshan County, it is proposed optimization strategies and suggestions in four aspects: increasing the participation of villagers in living environment improvement, carrying out toilet renovation and manure treatment according to local conditions, accelerating the efforts of rural domestic sewage treatment, and establishing the long-term management and protection mechanisms for rural living environment. The study provides prospects for future research priorities and directions of rural living environment improvement.
In order to systematically review the research progress and hot frontiers of rural infrastructure construction at home and abroad, 4609 papers collected from the core collection database of Web of Science and China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI) from 2000 to 2022 were used as data samples, and the visual analysis software CiteSpace and bibliometric research method were applied to analyze the research status, keyword clustering and emerging keyword of the rural infrastructure construction at home and abroad. The results showed that the overall trend of domestic and foreign publications was increasing, and foreign research was hotter than domestic research. Domestic research was more focused on economics, financial and other disciplines, while foreign research involved disciplines of environment, science, ecology, etc. There was less cooperation between domestic and foreign scholars, and domestic institutions had fewer project exchanges and research cooperation with each other compared with foreign research institutions. Foreign research keywords mainly focused on green infrastructure, rural health, rural electrification and sustainable livelihoods, while domestic research keywords mainly included rural revitalization, farmland water conservancy and rural economy, etc. At present, foreign research mainly focused on renewable energy and sustainable development, while domestic research focused on rural revitalization and rural e-commerce, etc. Finally, the future research prospects in the field of rural infrastructure construction in China were discussed, and the areas of sustainable rural infrastructure construction, green infrastructure construction and rural information infrastructure construction could be paid attention to in the follow-up research.
The harmless and reuse of agricultural waste not only turns waste biomass into treasure, but also reduces pollution to the ecological environment and improves the living environment, which is an effective way to achieve green, circular, low-carbon, efficient and sustainable development. In this article, we conducted bibliometric statistics of the relevant literature on agricultural waste resource utilization published in China and abroad from 1990 to 2022, and comprehensively analyzed the annual trend of the number of articles published in this field and the key words with the help of CiteSpace and VOSviewer bibliometric tools. Domestic research in this area started nearly 10 years earlier than overseas, the research intensity and importance of international research in this field since 2002 have been significantly higher than that of domestic research, the growth trend of the number of annual publications is also significantly higher than that of domestic research, and the gap between the number of publications at home and abroad is also widening year by year. The research hotspots in the field are not exactly the same at home and abroad. We focus more on the use of waste for the production of organic fertilizers to realize the recycling of green and low-carbon agriculture in China; the foreign countries focus more on biomass materialization and energy utilization of waste to compensate for the consumption of non-renewable resources. Based on China's basic condition of having more people and less land, China should strive to broaden the disposal methods of agricultural waste by classifying and disposing of agricultural waste raw materials and subsequently using them for substrate, feed, fertilizer, materialization and energy. And waste gas, heat and residue should be recycled in order to realize the multi-level utilization of harmless, reduced and diversified biomass resources. The results of the study provide a reference for the development of the field of agricultural waste resource utilization in China.
Agro-ecosystem is not only one of the important contributors to greenhouse gases, but also plays an important role in carbon sequestration and emission reduction. Under the background of “CO2 emission peak” and “carbon neutrality”, agro-ecosystem has great potential for carbon sequestration and emission reduction. In this paper, we mainly reviewed the sources, fixed pathways, and influencing factors of main greenhouse gases in China’s typical agro-ecological types. Meantime, the specific contents were discussed including the existing research results, emission reduction potential and existing problems of carbon sequestration and emission reduction in agro-ecosystem. New research directions and exploration approaches were summarized to promote the research in the field of carbon sequestration in the entire agroecological system. It provided an important theoretical reference for China to further carbon sequestration and emission reduction, sustainable development of agriculture, and the realization of the “double carbon” goal as soon as possible.
Adjustment of agricultural planting structure is the main content of agricultural supply-side reform, and is also an important measure to promote farmers’ income. In order to study the impact of agricultural planting structure adjustment on agricultural mechanization, based on the panel data of 14 prefecture-level cities in Guangxi, we empirically analyzed the impact of agricultural planting structure adjustment on the development level of regional agricultural mechanization in Guangxi by the fixed-effect model. The results show that: the adjustment of agricultural planting structure has no direct impact on agricultural mechanization. Rural road facilities and agricultural operation scale have significant positive impact on the development level of regional agricultural mechanization. The increase of farmers’ income has a mediating effect on the development level of agricultural mechanization in Guangxi. According to the research results, the level of agricultural mechanization can be comprehensively improved by improving the rural infrastructure, promoting the moderate scale of agricultural operation, adjusting the agricultural planting structure and increasing farmers’ income.
Modern Agricultural Development and Rural Revitalization
