Does digital inclusive finance promote agricultural development? A test based on threshold and spillover effects

This paper investigates the connection between the advancement of high-quality agricultural development and digital inclusive finance using data from China's province panels covering the years 2011 to 2021. The results reveal several key insight:1)Digital inclusive finance can significantly contribute to high-quality agricultural development; 2)The impact is characterized by non-linearity, and it displays threshold traits associated with the entrepreneurship of rural residents; 3)Spatial spillover effects suggest that digital inclusive finance not only contributes to the region's increasing level of high-quality agricultural development, but it also supports the highquality agricultural development processes of surrounding regions.