China's Agriculture Enters a New Phase of Mechanical Operations

In 2010, with the support of agricultural machinery purchase subsidies and other policies for strengthening agriculture and benefiting farmers, China's agricultural mechanization maintained a coordinated and rapid development. Farmers' enthusiasm for purchasing machines continued to rise, and the amount of agricultural equipment maintained a rapid increase. The level of agricultural machinery operations was significant. improve. China's agricultural production mode has achieved a historic leap from human-animal power to mechanical operations, and agricultural machinery has become the main force in agricultural production and disaster relief. It has played an important role in promoting grain production for the seventh consecutive year. This year's agricultural mechanization development presents the following four characteristics:

The agricultural mechanization support policy has been further strengthened. The "Opinions of the State Council on Promoting Sound and Rapid Development of Agricultural Mechanization and Agricultural Machinery Industry" was issued and issued comprehensively and systematically for the guiding ideology, basic principles, development goals, major tasks, and supporting policies and measures for the development of agricultural mechanization in China. A programmatic document for the development of agricultural mechanization during a period. A major breakthrough has been made in the investment in the basic construction of the agricultural mechanization system. This year, the conservation tillage project will have an investment of 300 million yuan, and the agricultural mechanization promotion project will be allocated 370 million yuan for the construction of grassroots agricultural mechanization systems. This year, a total of 407 million yuan will be obtained for subsidizing farm machinery operations. This year, the central government's subsidies for the purchase of agricultural machinery and equipment will be 15.5 billion yuan, an increase of 2.5 billion yuan, and a total of 5.25 million sets of farm machinery will be subsidized and 4 million households will be benefited. The total power of agricultural machinery increased by 5.1% year-on-year to 920 million kilowatts, and the equipment structure was further optimized.

The mechanization of weak links in key crops has been further developed. It is estimated that the mechanization level of crop cultivation and harvest will increase by 3% year-on-year to 52% this year. China's agricultural production mode has achieved a historic leap from human to animal power to mechanical operations. The level of rice transplanting machine has reached 20%, 3% higher than that of the previous year, and the machine harvest level will exceed 60% and increase by 5 percentage points. The national corn harvest rate reached 25%, an increase of 8 percentage points over the previous year. Among them, the corn harvest rate in Shandong Province reached 71.5%.

The scope of agricultural machinery promotion training has been further expanded. The area of ​​17 key agricultural mechanization technologies, such as precision sowing, has reached an area of ​​550 million mu, an increase of about 10% from the previous year. The annual training of agricultural machinery and various types of talents was 5.77 million. Among them, there are 200,000 people in the Sunshine Project Agricultural Machinery Training, an increase of 80,000 over the previous year.

Agricultural machinery played a more important role in agricultural production and disaster relief. In response to extreme abnormal weather conditions and serious natural disasters this year, during key farming periods such as spring plowing, “three summers” and “three autumns,” localities actively organized agricultural machinery to invest in agricultural production, grab a farmer, prevent disasters, and harvest bumper crops. The agricultural machinery departments in Southwest China, Northeast China, Gansu, Jilin, Jiangxi, Hainan, and Fujian actively organized agricultural machinery to fight drought, protect spring cropping, resist low temperatures and spring sowing, fight debris flow, typhoon, and heavy rain disasters. In the “three summers” main producing area, the wheat harvest and corn seeding rate exceeded 90%, and the national wheat harvest time was shortened by 4 days compared with previous years. This has earned a valuable agricultural season for the receipt of summer grain and summer seeding. During the “Three Autumns” period, it organized 29 million units (sets) of agricultural machinery of various types throughout the country to complete autumn harvest and autumn seeding operations, and used 140 million mu of agricultural machinery to loosen and loosen the land for the purpose of harvesting grain this year and laying a solid foundation for increasing grain output next year. Made an important contribution.