Fang Heyuan and Sun Qiming. Research on agriculture-space matching and its economic effect—a Case Study of Hainan in China. Dynamic Systems and Applications 29 (2020) No. 11, 3133 – 3144

https://doi.org/10.46719/dsa202029112

ABSTRACT.
The matching between industry and space has significant influence on industrial development. The matching between industrial development and the regional comparative advantage of production elements contribute to narrow the economy gap and achieve an equilibrium state of development. Different from secondary industry and tertiary industry, agricultural economic growth depends not only on the spillovers of technology and capital that generated from industrial agglomeration, but also on the effective use of local natural resources. After defining the concept of agriculture-space matching from the perspectives of water and soil utilization spatial matching and industrial spatial agglomeration matching, the matching degree were calculated based on the panel data of Hainan which was the only province that located in the tropics in China. Further, the economic development effect of agriculture-space matching was estimated by spatial lag econometric model. The empirical findings indicated that two types of matching both had significant promotion to agricultural economic increasing. However, due to the profuse water resource in Hainan, the agriculture development had more dependent on industrial spatial agglomeration matching.

Keywords: Agriculture-space matching. Water and soil resource. Industry and space matching. Spatial lag model. Industrial spatial agglomeration. Tropical agriculture.