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Management and Migration of Pollutants for Agroecosystem Green Development
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Management and Migration of Pollutants for Agroecosystem Green Development

A special issue of Agriculture (ISSN 2077-0472). This special issue belongs to the section "Agricultural Economics, Policies and Rural Management".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 April 2025 | Viewed by 2489

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Dr. Junya Zhang

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Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100086, China
Interests: antimicrobials; agroecosystem; livestock manure management; anaerobic digestion; antimicrobial resistance genes
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Prof. Dr. Kai Chen

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School of Economics and Management, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China
Interests: consumer behavior; green marketing; marketing strategy and management

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Dear Colleagues,

Livstock fertilizers, pesticides, agricultural films, and their packaging are indispensable materials in agricultural production. However, the excessive use and improper disposal of these materials are a "double-edged sword." While promoting increased crop yields, they bring about serious ecological problems, such as declining soil quality, soil structure compaction, groundwater pollution, spread of antimicrobial resistance genes and a sharp decrease in biodiversity. Sustainable agriculture is an effective way to address these issues, not only conserving agricultural resources, ensuring product safety, and maintaining human health but also playing a crucial role in promoting agricultural green transformation and seeking high-quality development. This special issue aims to reflect new situations and issues in the practice of agricultural green development through scientific research, providing detailed and reliable evidence for agricultural policy formulation and institutional innovation. We welcome high-quality original research papers, perspectives or review papers.

Dr. Junya Zhang
Prof. Dr. Kai Chen
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • agriculture green development
  • agricultural pollutants management
  • antimirobial resistance genes
  • agreoecosystem management
  • livestock manure management
  • new pollutants in agriculture

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Optimization of Manure-Based Substrate Preparation to Reduce Nutrients Losses and Improve Quality for Growth of Agaricus bisporus
by Yucong Geng, Yuhan Wang, Han Li, Rui Li, Shengxiu Ge, Hongyuan Wang, Shuxia Wu and Hongbin Liu
Agriculture 2024, 14(10), 1833; https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture14101833 - 18 Oct 2024
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With the growing world population, food demand has also increased, resulting in increased agricultural waste and livestock manure production. Wheat straw and cow dung are rich nutrient sources and, if not utilized properly, may lead to environmental pollution. Keeping in view the cultivation [...] Read more.
With the growing world population, food demand has also increased, resulting in increased agricultural waste and livestock manure production. Wheat straw and cow dung are rich nutrient sources and, if not utilized properly, may lead to environmental pollution. Keeping in view the cultivation of Agaricus bisporus on straw/manure-based substrate, the current study aimed to optimize the conventional manure preparation technique to reduce nutrient losses and keep the quality of manure at its best. The treatments were considered as traditional and optimized schemes for mushroom substrate preparation. The results achieved herein indicated that the nutrient losses were low in the optimum scheme. For carbon (C), the loss was 43.55% at the substrate stage in the traditional scheme and reduced to 37.75% in the optimum scheme. In the case of nitrogen (N), the loss was 22.01% in the traditional scheme and was lower (18.49%) in the optimum scheme. The nutrient concentration in Agaricus bisporus was higher with the optimum scheme compared with the traditional scheme. It was 1.74% for C, 7.17% for N, 3.58% for phosphorus (P), and 4.92% for potassium (K). The optimum scheme also improved the Agaricus bisporus yield per unit area (84.55%) and the total yield (28.92%). The net income of the optimum scheme was 102.95% higher compared to the traditional scheme. The economic analysis also revealed that the benefit–cost ratio of the optimum scheme was high (48.86%) compared with the traditional scheme. This study concludes that the use of the optimum scheme can better utilize the wheat straw and cow manure waste for substrate preparation and reducing nutrient losses. In addition, the final mushroom residue can also be used as a leftover substrate for further utilization. Full article
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The Impact of Digital Finance on Enhancing the Spatial Effects of Heterogeneous Environmental Regulations in Supporting Agricultural Green Total Factor Productivity
by Ruining Li, Qinghua Chen and Meng Li
Agriculture 2024, 14(7), 995; https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture14070995 - 25 Jun 2024
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Improving agricultural green total factor productivity (AGTFP) is the key to achieving sustainable agricultural development and empowering agricultural modernization. Based on the panel data of 30 provincial levels in China from 2011 to 2021, AGTFP is measured using the non-expected MinDS super-efficiency—MetaFrontier Malmquist [...] Read more.
Improving agricultural green total factor productivity (AGTFP) is the key to achieving sustainable agricultural development and empowering agricultural modernization. Based on the panel data of 30 provincial levels in China from 2011 to 2021, AGTFP is measured using the non-expected MinDS super-efficiency—MetaFrontier Malmquist model, and the impact of environmental regulation (ER) and digital finance on AGTFP is analyzed using the spatial Durbin model (SDM). The results show the following: (1) ER can increase local AGTFP and has a positive spatial spillover effect. Command-based ER has the highest impact on AGTFP, followed by market-incentive and public-voluntary ER. (2) Digital finance has a direct promotional effect on local AGTFP, while it has an inhibitory effect on AGTFP in neighboring regions due to the siphon effect. (3) Digital finance is an important regulatory variable affecting AGTFP concerning command-based, market-incentive and public-voluntary ER. Digital finance plays a significantly moderating role in the effectiveness of the three ERs on AGTFP, with the market-incentive ER being the highest in eastern China. Nonetheless, digital finance has a significantly moderating effect on the effectiveness of command-based and public-voluntary ER on AGTFP, with command-based ER being higher in central China. Meanwhile, digital finance only plays a significantly moderating role in the effectiveness of command-based environment regulation on AGTFP in western China. This study provides valuable reference for policymakers concerning agriculture green production in varied regions. Full article
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