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China's agricultural mechanization level has increased by 27 percentage points compared with 10 years ago

Published: 2024-11-22 Author: mysheen
Last Updated: 2024/11/22, China's agricultural mechanization reached 59.5 percent in 2013, up from 10 years ago, Bi Meijia, chief economist of the Ministry of Agriculture, said Tuesday at a Golden Autumn Report on Rural Development in China organized by the Voice of China Village, China's Central People's Radio

Bi Meijia, chief economist of China's Ministry of Agriculture, said on the 24th at the "Golden Autumn report meeting on China's Rural Development, the Foundation of a Great Power," held by the China Rural Voice of the Central people's Broadcasting Station, that in 2013, the comprehensive mechanization of crop farming and harvest in China reached 59.5 percent, 27 percentage points higher than 10 years ago.

Bi Meijia said: at present, China's wheat crops have basically achieved full mechanization, but there is still a gap in the level of mechanization of corn and rice, and the potential is still great.

The comprehensive mechanization level of farming and harvest refers to the percentage of the total amount of machinery and equipment used in agricultural production. Agricultural mechanization is an important agricultural infrastructure, the material basis of agricultural modernization and an important symbol to measure the level of agricultural modernization, and the key element to promote the transformation from traditional agriculture to modern agriculture. it plays an important role in the process of transformation from traditional agriculture to modern agriculture.

According to data from the Ministry of Agriculture, last year, the comprehensive mechanization level of crop cultivation and harvest in China's 153 national modern agricultural demonstration zones reached 72.5 percent, and the mode of agricultural production in the demonstration areas has mainly relied on modern facilities and machinery operations.

Bi Meijia also said that although grain production in some areas has been affected by drought this year, this year will still be a bumper harvest and is expected to achieve "11 consecutive increases."

 
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