Multi-agent Collaborative Participation of Agricultural Machinery Service, High Quality Operation and Agricultural Production Efficiency: A Case Study of Conservation Tillage Technology

Abstract

Abstract The improvement of agricultural production efficiency is of great significance to eliminate rural poverty and ensure food security.Taking conservation tillage technology as an example, this paper analyzes the background and characteristics of multi-agent collaborative participation in agricultural machinery service. It analyzes the direct impact of agricultural machinery services provided by multi-service agents on farmers' agricultural production efficiency and the intermediary effect transmitted through high-quality conservation tillage operation by using intermediary effect model, based on survey data of four locations in the black soil region of China in 2021. The results show that: (1) The Agricultural Machinery Service with Multi-agent Collaborative Participation is characterized by its comprehensive service content, full service content, and high service availability, and the cooperative mode primarily demonstrates technical collaboration, service collaboration, and benefit collaboration; (2) The agricultural machinery service with multi-agent collaborative participation has a direct positive effect on agricultural production efficiency; (3) The agricultural machinery service with multi-agent collaborative participation has a significant impact on the high-quality operation of conservation tillage. The better the collaborative effect of multi-agent collaborative participation of agricultural machinery service, the higher the quality of farmers' conservation tillage operation; (4) High-quality conservation tillage operation can effectively improve agricultural production efficiency and play an intermediary effect in the influence of service of agricultural machinery with the cooperation of multiple service subjects on agricultural production efficiency. Under the background of the shortage of agricultural labor force and the increasingly serious pressure of aging in China, we should upgrade the service of agricultural machinery based on single transactional service to multi-agent cooperation, improve the development quality of multi-agent service consortium of agricultural machinery, and provide corresponding policy support measures such as compensation, financial credit and management evaluation, so as to promote the improvement of agricultural production efficiency and ensure national food security.