Table 5 The estimated impact of land transfer on the adoption of AGPTs by farmers.

From: Will land transfer improve grain farmers’ adoption of agricultural green production technology? Evidence from Jiangxi Province, China

Variable

Endogenous transformation regression model (ESR)

Oprobit

Selection equation

Result

equation

Whether to transfer land

Land transfer

No Land transfer

Adoption of AGPTs

Gender

−0.094

(0.128)

0.056

(0.185)

−0.083

(0.115)

−0.028

(0.102)

Age

−0.062

(0.057)

0.042

(0.071)

0.072

(0.047)

0.064

(0.040)

Education level

0.074

(0.047)

0.260***

(0.080)

−0.001

(0.052)

0.073*

(0.044)

Health level

−0.047

(0.047)

−0.023

(0.065)

0.071

(0.045)

0.042

(0.037)

Village cadres

−0.003

(0.059)

−0.050

(0.143)

0.048

(0.107)

0.058

(0.084)

Household population

0.777***

(0.057)

−0.082

(0.074)

0.025

(0.049)

0.004

(0.042)

Number of part-time employees in the family

−0.051

(0.057)

0.012

(0.067)

0.041

(0.042)

0.006

(0.037)

Number of elderly farmers

0.143

(0.112)

−0.108

(0.081)

−0.092*

(0.055)

−0.107**

(0.047)

E-commerce training participation

−0.128

(0.114)

0.301

(0.189)

−0.070

(0.158)

0.104

(0.117)

Production technology information requirements

0.054

(0.053)

0.052**

(0.023)

0.035**

(0.016)

0.062***

(0.013)

Digital technology application

0.227

(0.160)

0.610***

(0.160)

0.568***

(0.173)

0.509***

(0.109)

Cooperative participation

0.050

(0.052)

0.017

(0.140)

0.100

(0.109)

0.033

(0.085)

Cultivated area of paddy fields

0.287*

(0.154)

−0.155*

(0.088)

−0.019

(0.165)

0.026

(0.038)

Fertility of paddy fields

0.038**

(0.017)

0.203***

(0.073)

0.057

(0.053)

0.117***

(0.044)

Evaluation of grain purchase prices

0.090*

(0.050)

   

Land transfer

   

0.307***

(0.084)

Constants

0.090*

−0.759

−0.839*

0.307***

(0.050)

(0.740)

(0.465)

(0.084)

Wald test

62.16***

 

LR test

2.79*

140.78***

Log-likelihood

−2036.086

−1286.820

lns1

 

0.217***

  
  

(0.047)

  

lns2

  

0.005

 
   

(0.029)

 

r1

 

−0.412**

  
  

(0.168)

  

r2

  

0.030

 
   

(0.275)

 
  1. Notes: The levels of significance are denoted by ***, **, and *, which signify statistical significance at the 1%, 5%,and 10% thresholds, respectively.