[HTML][HTML] Mechanization of small-scale agriculture in China: Lessons for enhancing smallholder access to agricultural machinery

W Liao, F Zeng, M Chanieabate - Sustainability, 2022 - mdpi.com
Develo** countries with small-scale agriculture have yet to exploit the untapped potential
of agricultural mechanization. This is because of the misconception that mechanization is …

[HTML][HTML] A systematic review of food loss and waste in China: Quantity, impacts and mediators

C Li, P Bremer, MK Harder, MSW Lee, K Parker… - Journal of environmental …, 2022 - Elsevier
Although food loss and waste (FL&W) is high on China's national policy agenda, there is still
little scientific information published about how much FL&W exists in China, what its impacts …

Impact of agricultural mechanization on agricultural production, income, and mechanism: evidence from Hubei province, China

J Peng, Z Zhao, D Liu - Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Increasing agricultural operating income is not only an important step in improving
agricultural work for farmers in the new era, but is also a powerful way to promote rural …

The role of agricultural machinery in improving green grain productivity in China: Towards trans-regional operation and low-carbon practices

W Ma, T Liu, W Li, H Yang - Heliyon, 2023 - cell.com
Agricultural machinery is effective in improving food production and labor productivity, but it
also raises environmental concerns. The impacts of agricultural machinery on the green total …

Evaluation of conventional and mechanization methods towards precision agriculture in Indonesia

H Herdiansyah, E Antriyandarti, A Rosyada, NID Arista… - Sustainability, 2023 - mdpi.com
Food security is a major concern in many countries, including Indonesia. Land productivity
has decreased due to shrinking agricultural land, global warming, and land degradation …

[HTML][HTML] Assessing the ability of agricultural socialized services to promote the protection of cultivated land among farmers

C Cheng, Q Gao, Y Qiu - Land, 2022 - mdpi.com
Protecting and improving the quality of cultivated land is important to agricultural
modernization. Based on data from a survey of 706 rice-growing households in Hunan …

The dual impacts of specialized agricultural services on pesticide application intensity: Evidence from China

Q Li, J Wang, J Wu, Q Zhai - Pest Management Science, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
BACKGROUND Specialized agricultural services are a new trend in agricultural production
around the world, especially in develo** countries. However, the growing impacts of …

[HTML][HTML] Divergence between willingness and behavior of farmers to purchase socialized agricultural services: From a heterogeneity perspective of land scale

M Qu, K Zhao, R Zhang, Y Gao, J Wang - Land, 2022 - mdpi.com
The low-level dilemma of farmers' Socialized Agricultural Services (SAS) purchases is a
realistic problem facing the construction of socialized service systems in China's major grain …

Can mechanized pesticide application help reduce pesticide use and increase crop yield? Evidence from rice farmers in Jiangsu province, China

J Li, P Vatsa, W Ma - International Journal of Agricultural …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
This study is devoted to analyzing the effects of outsourcing machinery-intensive farming
activities vis-à-vis using mechanized equipment in-house on pesticide use, utilizing cross …

Agricultural machinery service adoption and farmland transfer-in decision: Evidence from rural China

Y Zhang, J Zhang, Y Liu, P Zhu - Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2023 - frontiersin.org
With the deepening of China's agricultural labor division, the rapid development of
agricultural machinery service has had a profound impact on farmland scale management …