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The Volatility and Growth Trend of
Field Production Mechanization
Level in China - A Positive Analysis
Based on Hodrick-Prescott Method
Huang Y. X., Yang X. H., Huang S., Zhu R. and Zhang Z.
Northwest A&F University
China
1. Introduction
Agricultural machinery is the important material base for developing modern agriculture,
and agricultural mechanization is a symbol of agricultural modernization. It is an urgent
demand for improving agricultural productivity, increasing farmers' income, ensuring
agricultural production ability and promoting rural development to promote agricultural
mechanization level increasing sustainably, stablely and high-speedily(Yang, 2005; Zhang
and Gao, 2009; Ju and Wang, 2009). During the 1940s to 1960s, Most of the developed
countries had realized the mechanization of field production and, around the 1960s, had
realized all-sided mechanization successively. Usually, mechanization of field production is
used instead of agricultural mechanization (similarly hereinafter). During the developing
history in the past 60 years, the Chinese agricultural mechanization has experienced the
following process: start-up stage, preliminary development stage and fall, recovery and
steady development stage. In 2008, the level of mechanical planting, mechanical sowing and
mechanical harvesting are respectively 62.9%, 37.4% and 31.2%. This shows that Chinese
agricultural production mode is changing constantly and the mechanization production
methods are gradually playing a leading and dominant role in agricultural production
mode. However, compared with the national economic and social development needs, the
level of Chinese agricultural mechanization is still low and this is becoming the main
sticking point to construct and develop modern agriculture. Especially, the low level of
mechanical sowing and mechanical harvesting restricted the whole level of Chinese
agricultural mechanization to develop rapidly. Due to the influence of social and economic
development level, technical conditions, market environment, policy system and natural
conditions, the development of field production mechanization has both the growth feature
over time and certain volatility feature. The development of field production mechanization
has experienced several downturn periods and these periods have adverse impact on
improving agricultural labor productivity, guaranteeing the agricultural production ability
and promoting rural development. Along with the agricultural mechanization and the
sustainable development of national economic, ensuring that field production
mechanization develops continuously, stably and rapidly plays an important role in
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