1.China's agricultural mechanization status
China with 7% of the world's arable land, but for 22% of the world's population to supply the basic adequate food. The rapid and steady development of agriculture cannot be separated from agricultural mechanization. China's agricultural mechanization after years of hard development, has gained certain achievements, but there are still some shortcomings.
1.1 Achievements of China's agricultural mechanization
(1) Steady improvement of agricultural machinery and equipment
In 1949, the total power of the national agricultural machinery and equipment was only 81.1 million kilowatts, and there were only 117 sets of agricultural tractors, and some large-scale agricultural machinery, such as combine harvesters and agricultural trucks, were basically blank. After more than half a century of development, the possession of agricultural machinery has increased. Thousands of times some varieties to tens of thousands of times. As of the end of 2003, the total power of the national agricultural machinery reached more than 600 million kW, the original value of agricultural machinery amounted to 336.2 billion U.S. dollars. Agricultural tractor ownership of 14.94 million units, tractor supporting farm equipment 22.92 million, 36 million units of combined harvesting machinery.
(2) the level of mechanization of farmland operations increased significantly the level of mechanization of farmland operations increased significantly the level of mechanization of mechanical ploughing, sowing, harvesting of water were 46.8 %, 26.7 %, 19 %; 2004 wheat harvesting 47% higher than in 1995.
(3) Agricultural machinery service areas keep expanding
Agricultural institutions service areas from the original farm operations, gradually. Gradually to the pre-production and post-production extension to the rest of the field. A large number of equipment agricultural equipment, agricultural and sideline product processing machinery, animal husbandry machinery, forestry machinery, plant protection machinery, transportation machinery, farmland infrastructure machinery and other rapid increase. Greenhouse area reached 6.9 billion square meters; field management machine reached 40,000 units.
(4) international communication and cooperation in agricultural technology has been enhanced
In recent years, many large international agricultural companies look at China's huge agricultural market, and China's relevant departments and companies to cooperate in China to open up the business, and gained a ****-winning performance. Some large domestic companies, non-stop learning from foreign advanced experience and technology, increase technological transformation and upgrading efforts to promote the quality of domestic agricultural mechanization to improve the quality of production. In order to encourage the import of large-scale agricultural machinery, the state also formulated a preferential import tax policy.