Can New Quality Productive Forces Promote the Integrated Development of Agriculture and Logistics Industry? — Evidence from panel data across 30 provinces

Accelerating the deep integration of agriculture and the logistics industry is a key pathway to achieving comprehensive rural revitalization, the strategy of becoming a strong agricultural nation, and high-quality development. However, the mechanisms and impact effects of new quality productive forces in this integration process are not yet clear. To address this, based on panel data from 30 provinces in China, this paper constructs a coupling coordination model and an econometric model to systematically analyze the impact of new quality productive forces on the integrated development of agriculture and the logistics industry. The research findings show that the integration level of agriculture and the logistics industry in most provinces across the country generally exhibits a trend of coordinated development, but with significant regional differences. At the same time, new quality productive forces have a significant promotional effect on their integrated development, and for every additional unit of new quality productive forces, the integration level can be increased by 0.153 units. The research results provide important theoretical support and empirical evidence for accelerating the formation of new quality productive forces in agriculture, achieving regional agricultural modernization pathways, and policy formulation.