Can Industrial Integration Improve the Sustainability of Grain Security?

Abstract

The sustainability to ensure grain security is an important issue that China’s government faces. It has become more important to ensure grain security by improving the efficiency of grain production under the constraints of limited resources. At present, industrial integration has become an important trend of economic development in China. This study explores the impact of industrial integration on the sustainability of grain security from the perspective of grain production efficiency. In this paper, the grain production efficiency was measured by stochastic frontier analysis method. The degree of industrial integration is measured by the coupling coordination method. Additionally, the effect of industrial integration on grain production efficiency is empirically studied by the panel tobit model. Empirical results show that industrial integration can promote the improvement of grain production efficiency, which reveals that accelerating industrial integration can also be conducive to grain security.