Can whole steps of grain production be outsourced? Empirical analysis based on the three provinces of Jiangsu,Jilin,and Sichuan in China

作     者：Jiacheng Liu Shengzhi Mao Qiufen Zheng Zhigang Xu Jiacheng Liu;Shengzhi Mao;Qiufen Zheng;Zhigang Xu

作者机构：School of Finance and TaxationNanjing University of Finance and EconomicsJiangsu 210023China School of EconomicsSouthwestern University of Finance and EconomicsSichuan 611130China School of Economics and ManagementNanjing Agricultural UniversityJiangsu 210095China 

出 版 物：《Journal of Integrative Agriculture》 (农业科学学报（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2024年第23卷第1期

页      面：336-347页

核心收录：

学科分类：12[管理学] 0202[经济学-应用经济学] 02[经济学] 1203[管理学-农林经济管理] 020205[经济学-产业经济学] 0901[农学-作物学] 

基　　金：supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(72103088) the National Social Science Fund of China(20&ZD094 and 21&ZD101) 

主　　题：outsourcing services economy of scale technical conditions market scale 

摘      要：Certain outsourcing services for agricultural management in China,such as pest control in grain production,have experienced prolonged sluggishness,contrasting with the relatively high level of outsourcing services observed in harvesting,land preparation,and *** study examines the feasibility of implementing whole-step outsourcing in grain production by conducting a case study of rice and maize production in Jiangsu,Jilin,and Sichuan provinces in *** provision of outsourcing services hinges on two essential conditions:technological advancements fostering specialized production and economies of scale,coupled with a market size sufficient to realize the aforementioned potential economies of *** results showed that outsourcing pest control or harvesting services had varying economies of *** outsourcing services in pest control were less common than in harvesting services,and their marginal growth space of the economies of scale with technological change was also *** by the operational characteristics of pest control itself,the market scale of its professional services is ***,achieving the whole-step outsourcing of grain production necessitates not only technological innovation but also effective policy interventions to overcome the constraints of market *** interventions include(1)optimizing crop layouts between planning regions and reducing land fragmentation and(2)supplying timely and effective inter-regional agricultural information for service providers aided by information technology.