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2.3.4 Improving the management efficiency of agricultural mechanization production
continuously
Only when the management benefits rise, will farmers obtain economic strength and
confidence to invest more money on buying agricultural machines and field production
mechanization level be improved. Before 1980, China put forward slogans that we would
realize the agricultural mechanization in 1980 which resulted in the bland blind
development of Chinese agricultural mechanization. Such development had exceeded the
development level of rural productivity during that time and could not be accepted by
farmers, thus leaded to large quantities of wastes. One reason to explain this is that the
government putting more focus on service other than efficiency which betrayed the
economic law. Under the commodity economy conditions, profits are the major objective for
farmers to purchase and use of agricultural machinery and the power for the development
of agricultural mechanization (Hill, 2005; Georgeanne etc, 2009).
Many districts explored a lot to find the way to improve farm machinery management
benefit. From them, improving agricultural socialization service quality and benefit
continuously is an effective way to promote farmers' management benefit. Agricultural
machinery cooperatives had a rapid development and service quality and benefits were
improved significantly especially after the publishment of 'opinions on accelerating the
development of agricultural machinery professional co-operatives'. They played even a
more important role in increasing agricultural income and farmers' income. The farm
machinery management service organizations must accumulate by themselves in order to
increase the input of mechanization, make mechanization develop to a higher level.
Therefore, it is necessary to forward the farm machinery service to the market, practising
enterprise management and socialized service, improving mechanical utilization ratio and
the economic efficiency, improving the level of agricultural industrialization service.
The necessary condition of increasing agricultural mechanization level is to increase the
farmers' income. Under the current circumstance that the farmers' income level is low, it is
possible to increase farmers' income, government subsidies and so on to solve problems of
agricultural mechanization upfront input. Zhu etc (2007) studied the interdependency between
agricultural mechanization development and financial input, and the results showed that the
interdependency degree is related to financial investment and there is positive correlation to
per capita net income of farmers. At present, China has entered the period in which the
government needs to strength financial support for agricultural mechanization development
and in which the dependence to finance is growing rapidly. Take '11th five-year plan' period
of agricultural mechanization development as an example, the national comprehensive
mechanization level came to an unprecedented increasing rate which was more than 3% from
the year 2007 to year 2009. And this created a history record of rapid development. One of the
most important reasons is agricultural machinery purchase subsidies increased fast year by
year, and the central finance agricultural machinery purchase subsidies increased from 0.07
billion Yuan in 2004 to 15.5 billion Yuan in the year 2010, and this promoted the rapid
development of operation level of agricultural mechanization.
2.3.5 Completing supporting system construction of agricultural mechanization
development
Operation laws of agricultural mechanization include their own system coordination and
external environment coordination. Since the publishment of People's Republic of China
agricultural mechanization promotion law, through the development of 'tenth-five' plan