The Impact of Rural Industrial Integration on Farmers’ Income Increase in Hunan Province

Promoting the sustained and stable increase of farmers’ income is the core task of implementing the rural revitalization strategy, and the integration of rural industries has received extensive attention from academia and industry as an effective way to promote farmers’ income increase. In this study, Hunan Province was selected as the research object, using panel data from 2013 to 2022, using the entropy method to measure the level of rural industrial integration in each region, and exploring the relationship between rural industrial integration and farmers’ per capita disposable income through a Fixed-effect model. The results showed that, the degree of rural industrial integration in Hunan Province generally showed an upward trend, but the regional differences were still significant. The integrated development of rural industries had significantly promoted the sustained growth of farmers’ income. Accordingly, this paper put forward policy suggestions such as promoting policy implementation according to local conditions, innovating and developing three modes of rural industrial integration and increasing the support of scientific in order to provide useful reference and enlightenment for rural areas in Hunan Province to effectively promote rural industrial integration and realize the growth of farmers’ income according to the local actual situation.