A Study on the Empowerment Effect of New Qualitative Productivity in Agriculture on Farmers' Income

Enhancing farmers' income stands as a vital pillar for realizing agricultural and rural modernization and promoting shared prosperity in China. Leveraging panel data from 30 Chinese provinces spanning the period of 2013 to 2022, this research utilizes fixed-effects, mediating-effects, and moderating-effects models to explore the mechanisms through which the new qualitative productivity in agriculture drives farmers' income growth. The findings reveal: (1) New agricultural productivity significantly boosts farmers' income, with more pronounced effects in eastern/western regions and grain production functional areas. (2) Urbanization and factor productivity serve as mediating factors in this process. (3) Infrastructure levels positively moderate the income-enhancing effect of new agricultural productivity, while basic resource conditions exert negative moderation. Based on these results, policy recommendations are proposed, including constructing adaptive technology diffusion systems, expanding public service provisions, implementing region-specific regulatory strategies, and adopting smart resource management, to leverage new agricultural productivity for sustainable income growth among farmers.