IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science | 2021
An Empirical Research on Contribution of Agricultural Mechanization to Ecological Protection and Restoration in Rural of China
Abstract
[Purpose/significance] In order to explore the supporting mechanism and influence relationship of agricultural mechanization on rural ecological restoration and then put forward the improvement strategy of rural ecological restoration in combination with the development of agricultural mechanization, the structural equation model was built based on a number of related indexes of 31 provinces and cities from 2005 to 2017. [Results/conclusion] The results show that the direct effect of ecological construction and protection investment on agricultural mechanization is 1.126, while the direct effect of agricultural mechanization on ecological construction and protection investment is -3.060. In terms of the impact of various variables on ecological protection and construction investment, the direct impact of agricultural mechanization is the most significant, with the largest degree of effect, followed by the area of water-logging removal, soil and water loss control ranked third, and machine tillage rate ranked fourth. Empirical evidence shows that agricultural mechanization development is a powerful means to promote the efficiency of rural ecological protection and restoration, so we should further promote the development of agricultural mechanization, optimize the structural level of various measures in the development of agricultural mechanization, and strengthen the combined effect of direct impact and indirect impact to vigorously develop ecological conservation and restoration in rural areas.