What is modern agriculture?

Modern agriculture is developed on the basis of modern industry and modern science and technology. It refers to socialized agriculture that widely applies modern science and technology, means of production provided by modern industry and scientific management methods. Simply put, it is to develop agriculture with science, which can also be said to be industrialized agriculture. It germinated in the period of capitalist industrialization and was formed after the Second World War.

Accelerating the pace of modern agricultural construction is conducive to the liberation and development of rural productive forces, improving the comprehensive agricultural production capacity and efficiency, and promoting the all-round development of rural economy and society; It is conducive to introducing industrial technological achievements, improving the quality of agricultural development, promoting communication and interaction between urban and rural areas and workers and peasants, and realizing coordinated development between urban and rural areas; It is conducive to rational utilization of resources, protection and improvement of ecological environment, enhancement of agricultural sustainable development capacity and promotion of harmony between man and nature.

The extensive application of modern science and technology, from adapting to nature to consciously using and transforming nature, from relying on traditional experience to relying on science, has become a scientific agriculture based on highly developed botany, zoology, chemistry, physics and other sciences; Put a lot of materials and energy produced by industrial departments into agricultural production in exchange for a large number of agricultural products and become industrialized agriculture; Agricultural production has embarked on the road of regionalization and specialization, transforming from a natural economy to a highly developed commodity economy and becoming a commercialized and socialized agriculture.