Digital transformation and agricultural green economic resilience in China: A moderating and threshold analysis

Abstract

Improving the resilience of the agricultural economy is the core proposition of ensuring national food security and achieving sustainable agricultural development. Based on the digital economy's empowerment of agricultural economic resilience, this paper empirically tests the impact mechanism of digital economy on agricultural economic resilience by using panel data from 30 provinces in China from 2012 to 2022. The results show that the digital economy has a significant role in promoting the resilience of the agricultural economy, and the resilience level of the agricultural economy will increase by 0.558 for every 1 unit increase in the development level of the digital economy;(2) the agglomeration of agricultural industry forms a certain scale effect through information integration and transmission, which has a significant positive moderating effect on the resilience of the agricultural economy;(3) there is a single threshold effect on the resilience of rural human capital, and the editing improvement of the digital economy on the resilience of the agricultural economy is expanded by 1.44 times after crossing the critical point. Therefore, this paper puts forward some suggestions to improve the environment for the development of digital economy in rural areas, further adjust the distribution of agricultural industrial resources, and improve the level of rural human capital, so as to promote the coordinated development of digital economy and accelerate the realization of the strategic goal of becoming an agricultural power.