Metricizing policy texts: Comprehensive dataset on China's Agri-policy intensity spanning 1982-2023.

Due to the lack of direct assessment metrics, existing studies on the intensity of agricultural policies often utilize indicators such as Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of agriculture or the quantity of agricultural policies as measures. Optimizing methods for analyzing the intensity of agricultural policies will significantly impact parameter selection in agricultural policy research and the evaluation of policy effectiveness. In this study, we constructed a Chinese Agricultural Policy Corpus using agricultural policies released by various governmental agencies at the national level in China from 1982 to April 2023. We quantified the values of agricultural domain terms in the corpus and evaluated the intensity of each agricultural policy document. The validation results of this study indicate a strong correlation between the intensity of agricultural policies and agricultural GDP. The trend in agricultural GDP changes lags behind policy intensity by 2.5 years (at a 95% confidence level), thus validating the rationality of our constructed corpus, agricultural policy scoring dataset, and methodology.

Identification of cotton pest and disease based on CFNet- VoV-GCSP -LSKNet-YOLOv8s: a new era of precision agriculture.

Introduction: The study addresses challenges in detecting cotton leaf pests and diseases under natural conditions. Traditional methods face difficulties in this context, highlighting the need for improved identification techniques. Methods: The proposed method involves a new model named CFNet-VoV-GCSP-LSKNet-YOLOv8s. This model is an enhancement of YOLOv8s and includes several key modifications: (1) CFNet Module. Replaces all C2F modules in the backbone network to improve multi-scale object feature fusion. (2) VoV-GCSP Module. Replaces C2F modules in the YOLOv8s head, balancing model accuracy with reduced computational load. (3) LSKNet Attention Mechanism. Integrated into the small object layers of both the backbone and head to enhance detection of small objects. (4) XIoU Loss Function. Introduced to improve the model's convergence performance. Results: The proposed method achieves high performance metrics: Precision (P), 89.9%. Recall Rate (R), 90.7%. Mean Average Precision (mAP@0.5), 93.7%. The model has a memory footprint of 23.3MB and a detection time of 8.01ms. When compared with other models like YOLO v5s, YOLOX, YOLO v7, Faster R-CNN, YOLOv8n, YOLOv7-tiny, CenterNet, EfficientDet, and YOLOv8s, it shows an average accuracy improvement ranging from 1.2% to 21.8%. Discussion: The study demonstrates that the CFNet-VoV-GCSP-LSKNet-YOLOv8s model can effectively identify cotton pests and diseases in complex environments. This method provides a valuable technical resource for the identification and control of cotton pests and diseases, indicating significant improvements over existing methods.