Does Agricultural Product Trade Promote the Green Development of China's Agriculture?—Based on the Perspective of Agricultural Green Total Factor Productivity

Agricultural green total factor productivity plays an important role in the path of agricultural greening and modernization, it is conducive to the realization of high-quality agricultural development. In order to explore the relationship between agricultural product trade and agricultural green total factor productivity, the SBM-ML index method was chosen to use MaxDEA software to measure the agricultural green total factor productivity of each province from 2006 to 2020. Empirical results show that agricultural product trade can effectively promote agricultural green total factor productivity and promote the process of agricultural greening; it improves agricultural green total factor productivity through agricultural technology progress. Therefore, agricultural product trade can effectively improve agricultural green total factor productivity, and all provinces must promote the sustainable and healthy development of agricultural product trade. The government can formulate relevant agricultural product trade policies based on its trade development status and economic development level according to local conditions.