Environmental Regulation,Government R&D Investment And Agricultural Technology Progress

Since the reform and opening up,China’s agricultural economy has achieved long-term development and progress,supporting more than 20% of the world’s population with less than 10% of the world’s arable land,and meeting the emerging new needs in the national economic growth.However,behind such achievements,in addition to resource constraints such as tense human land relationship and frequent natural disasters,excessive use of chemical industrial products in agricultural production activities has caused serious environmental pollution,further limiting the potential space for agricultural development.Facing the increasingly serious situation of agricultural pollution,the development of modern agriculture can not only achieve the balance of supply and demand of agricultural products under the constraints of resources,but also take into account the problems of resource utilization efficiency and environmental carrying capacity.The constraint of environmental regulation on economic activities can force agricultural production to pursue the development path oriented by green technology innovation.However,for agricultural technology R&D enterprises,they are often deterred by the high cost of R&D trial and error and the externality of technology spillover.As an important means to support agricultural science and technology innovation and technological progress,government R&D investment can not only provide financial support for R&D innovation enterprises,but also effectively protect R&D achievements,which makes up for "market failure" to a certain extent.Therefore,to deeply explore the interaction between environmental regulation and Government R&D investment,and comprehensively analyze the mechanism of the two on agricultural technology progress,will help to provide a useful reference for promoting agricultural economic growth and ecological benefits.This paper generally follows the research ideas of why environmental regulation and Government R&D investment can affect agricultural technology progress,how to affect and how to affect the effect,and carries out the research from the aspects of theoretical basis analysis,action mechanism carding,fact characteristics discussion and empirical design test.Firstly,the theoretical basis of the impact of environmental regulation and Government R&D investment on agricultural technology progress is systematically summarized;secondly,based on the relevant theoretical basis,the mechanism of environmental regulation and Government R&D investment on agricultural technology progress is clarified,and the comprehensive effect of the two on agricultural technology progress through induction effect and crowding out effect;thirdly,from the perspective of China’s agricultural development Finally,through the construction of a variety of econometric models,from an empirical point of view,we test the difference of the effect of agricultural technology progress under different environmental regulation intensity,and the relationship between environmental regulation and agricultural technology progress of Government R&D investment as a key regulatory variable The reliability of the regression results was tested.The empirical results show that the effect of environmental regulation and Government R&D investment on agricultural technology progress is opposite,the former shows a significant promotion,the latter has a significant inhibition,environmental regulation can force agricultural technology progress,but also has a significant threshold feature,that is,when the intensity of environmental regulation reaches a certain threshold,it will weaken the promotion effect of technological progress,The results show that the crowding out effect of Government R&D investment on Agricultural R&D innovation funds is greater than the inducing effect,and weakens the innovation compensation effect of environmental regulation,so that the agricultural technology progress has not been significantly improved;the regional heterogeneity test results show that the agricultural technology progress effect of environmental regulation and Government R&D investment in the western region is better than that in the eastern and central regions.