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Do Disease and Pest Control Outsourcing Services Reduce Arable Land Abandonment? Evidence from China

Arable land abandonment has been occurring in China in recent years. Although an emerging number of studies have investigated the impacts of urbanization and labor migration on arable land abandonment, little is known about what roles agricultural outsourcing services play in reducing arable land ab...

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Autores principales: Zhang, Xiaoheng, Yan, Guiquan, He, Yucheng, Yu, Hailong
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9517323/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36141670
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph191811398
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author Zhang, Xiaoheng
Yan, Guiquan
He, Yucheng
Yu, Hailong
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description Arable land abandonment has been occurring in China in recent years. Although an emerging number of studies have investigated the impacts of urbanization and labor migration on arable land abandonment, little is known about what roles agricultural outsourcing services play in reducing arable land abandonment. Based on the data from the China Labor-force Dynamics Survey (CLDS) in both 2014 and 2016, this study employs a two-stage least squares method to address the potential endogeneity issue and sheds some light on the impact of agricultural outsourcing services for controlling disease and pests in arable land abandonment in China. The empirical results show that disease and pest control outsourcing services (DPCOS) significantly decrease the size of household-level arable land abandonment by 6.59% on average. More specifically, DPCOS mainly reduce the arable land abandonment in regions with the labor shortages, while this does not lead to a significant decrease in arable land abandonment in regions characterized by poor soil quality and steep slopes. Therefore, we may conclude that DPCOS could contribute to the reuse of farmlands suitable for cultivation and the exit of farmlands unsuitable for cultivation.
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spelling pubmed-95173232022-09-29 Do Disease and Pest Control Outsourcing Services Reduce Arable Land Abandonment? Evidence from China Zhang, Xiaoheng Yan, Guiquan He, Yucheng Yu, Hailong Int J Environ Res Public Health Article Arable land abandonment has been occurring in China in recent years. Although an emerging number of studies have investigated the impacts of urbanization and labor migration on arable land abandonment, little is known about what roles agricultural outsourcing services play in reducing arable land abandonment. Based on the data from the China Labor-force Dynamics Survey (CLDS) in both 2014 and 2016, this study employs a two-stage least squares method to address the potential endogeneity issue and sheds some light on the impact of agricultural outsourcing services for controlling disease and pests in arable land abandonment in China. The empirical results show that disease and pest control outsourcing services (DPCOS) significantly decrease the size of household-level arable land abandonment by 6.59% on average. More specifically, DPCOS mainly reduce the arable land abandonment in regions with the labor shortages, while this does not lead to a significant decrease in arable land abandonment in regions characterized by poor soil quality and steep slopes. Therefore, we may conclude that DPCOS could contribute to the reuse of farmlands suitable for cultivation and the exit of farmlands unsuitable for cultivation. MDPI 2022-09-10 /pmc/articles/PMC9517323/ /pubmed/36141670 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph191811398 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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title_short Do Disease and Pest Control Outsourcing Services Reduce Arable Land Abandonment? Evidence from China
title_sort do disease and pest control outsourcing services reduce arable land abandonment? evidence from china
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9517323/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36141670
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph191811398
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