Study on Environmental Regulation and Growth of Agricultural Total Factor Productivity in China

The paper uses the provincial panel data to calculate the agricultural non-point source pollution and carbon emissions asbad outputindex and incorporates it into the agricultural total factor productivity.Then the paper applies the Malmquist-Luenberger productivity index method to analyze the growth of agricultural total factor productivity under environmental regulations of 30 provinces in China from 2001 to 2010,and discusses the influence factors of agricultural total factor productivity in China under consideration of environment.Results show that:agricultural total factor productivity under consideration of environment in China has a growing trend but show greater volatility,which is mainly driven by the technological progress;the agricultural total factor productivity in China under consideration of environment has a decreasing trend in the order of the eastern,central and western regions;agricultural economic development,agricultural structure fluctuant,agricultural infrastructure investment have a significant effect on agricultural total factor productivity in China under consideration of environment,but the effect of environmental regulation is not significant.