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(Summary description)Agricultural mechanization is not only an important means of reducing costs, improving quality, and increasing efficiency in agricultural supply-side reforms, it is also a potential market that still needs to be cultivated.
On January 5, the Ministry of Agriculture issued the "Thirteenth Five-Year Plan for the Development of National Agricultural Mechanization" (hereinafter referred to as the "Plan"). The "Planning" proposes that by 2020, significant progress will be made in the mechanization of the main crop production, planting and breeding, and comprehensive mechanization. A new pattern of regionally coordinated development of agricultural mechanization has basically taken shape, and regions with conditions will be the first to basically achieve agricultural mechanization.
"At present, our country is facing the difficulty of insufficient agricultural competitiveness, mainly due to the rapid increase in labor costs leading to high product prices and low farmers’ income. Agricultural mechanization can better solve this problem, effectively reduce labor costs, and improve production quality and efficiency. This is also an important aspect and means to cooperate with agricultural supply-side structural reforms and agricultural transformation." Zheng Fengtian, deputy dean of the School of Agriculture and Rural Development, Renmin University of China, told a reporter from Shanghai Securities News.
The "Plan" proposes that by 2020, the level of agricultural machinery operations will be comprehensively improved. The comprehensive mechanization rate of crop cultivation and harvest nationwide has reached about 70%, and the comprehensive mechanization rate of the three major grain crops such as wheat, rice and corn has reached and stabilized at over 80%.
Statistics show that the current comprehensive mechanization rate of crop cultivation and harvesting across the country is 63%, and there is still room for improvement in the next five years. The "Agricultural Machinery and Equipment Development Action Plan (2016-2025)" issued in December last year proposed that the mechanization rate should be increased to more than 75% by 2025.