Research on the coupled and coordinated development path of digital economy and agricultural modernization--Analysis based on data from 30 provinces in China, 2013-2021

The integrated development of digital economy and agricultural modernization provides new technologies and paths for high-quality economic development. The article selects data from 30 provinces in China from 2013 to 2021, measures the development level of digital economy and agricultural modernization using the entropy value method, and divides the stages of the integrated development of digital economy and agriculture through the coupled coordination model. The results show that: ① The digital economy and agricultural modernization grow at the same pace, and the digital economy grows faster than agricultural modernization from 2019 onwards. ② The degree of coupling coordination between the two systems reaches the state of high-quality coordination in 2021 from the state of extreme dysfunction in 2013, in which the four provinces of Guangdong, Zhejiang, Beijing, and Jiangsu always score ahead. Based on this, it is proposed to accelerate the promotion of new rural infrastructure and cultivate digital agricultural talents in order to promote the integrated development of digital economy and agricultural modernization.