A Study on the Pathways for Promoting Agricultural Modernization in the Hainan Free Trade Port Through New-Quality Productive Forces
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The construction of the Hainan Free Trade Port has created an environment for agricultural modernization by opening up the system, unfettering the flow of factors and upgrading industry. To reveal the paths of how new-quality productive forces promote the modernization of agriculture in Hainan, this paper builds an evaluation index system on production efficiency, technological innovation, digital empowerment, green transformation, industrial integration, and open circulation. For measurement and analysis, an obstacle degree model and entropy weighting model which is comprehensive evaluation model were used. The results indicate that, during 2018–2024, the comprehensive agricultural modernization index of Hainan has increased from 0.392 to 0.588, where digital empowerment, technological innovation, and open circulation have contributed 53.0% to the index increase, and the sub-indices such as cold chain coverage, processing and conversion, commercialization of scientific and technological results, and quality traceability are the main limitations of the comprehensive agricultural modernization. The conclusions suggest that the institutional setting of the Free Trade Port should take advantage of the synergy of technology platforms, digital government, cold chain processing and brand certification to foster the transformation of Hainan's tropical specialty agriculture into high quality and modern agriculture.
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