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Agricultural Mechanisation

In: Economic Transition in Hunan and Southern China

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Rapid farm mechanisation was considered an essential prerequisite for agricultural modernisation in China during the Mao period. A goal was set to implement a policy of fully-fledged mechanisation in 1980. At the first National Agricultural Conference held in October 1975, Hua Guo-feng announced that agricultural mechanisation was to ‘be basically achieved by 1980’. The Central Committee of the Chinese Communist party issued a document to reiterate this policy. However, the implementation of this policy did not progress as rapidly as expected. For example, at the Third National Conference on Agricultural Mechanisation held in January 1978, Vice Premier Yu Quili noted that by 1980, only 70 per cent of the major agricultural, forestry, animal husbandry, sideline production and fishery operations should be mechanised, and that this figure should rise to 85 per cent by 1985.1

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  • A. S. Bhalla, 1984. "Agricultural Mechanisation," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Economic Transition in Hunan and Southern China, chapter 5, pages 94-110, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-07207-1_5
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-07207-1_5
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