The influence of the development of modern agricultural management system on agricultural green production efficiency

The construction of modern agricultural management systems will become a new driving force in promoting the green development of agriculture, and identifying its influencing mechanism will be of great significance for transforming agricultural production modes and realizing modern and efficient agriculture. Based on panel data of 30 provincial administrative units in China from 2011 to 2022, this study used the entropy method and SBM model to measure the development level of modern agricultural management system and agricultural green production efficiency in China. The influence of modern agricultural management systems on agricultural green production efficiency was empirically analyzed using a two-way fixed-effects model, heterogeneity test, and threshold effect analysis. The results showed that the development of modern agricultural management systems promoted the improvement of agricultural green production efficiency, and this result remained valid after a series of robustness and instrumental variable tests. Modern agricultural management systems had no significant effect on the efficiency of agricultural green technology but promoted the progress of agricultural green technology. From the perspective of different regions, the greater the topographic relief, the more difficult it was for modern agricultural management systems to promote the green development of agriculture. The better the development of the digital economy, the more modern the agricultural management system, which improved agricultural green production efficiency. The threshold model further confirmed that modern agricultural management systems had a nonlinear impact on agricultural green production efficiency. On one hand, as the social economy develops, the utility of the modern agricultural management system becomes stronger. On the other hand, with the improvement in the level of agricultural economic development, the marginal utility of these systems tend to decline. This study provides a feasible path and policy foundation for building a modern agricultural management system and facilitating the transformation towards green agricultural development.