Yao Jianmin, Academy of Agricultural Sciences: Improving the level of agricultural mechanization in hilly and mountainous areas

[ China Agricultural Machinery Industry News ] Yao Jianmin, a deputy to the National People's Congress and a researcher at the Institute of Agricultural Resources and Economics of the Shanxi Academy of Agricultural Sciences, said in an interview with reporters that he hopes that the country can establish and improve the agricultural mechanization development policy system in the hilly and mountainous areas. "Restricted by geographical conditions, farming methods, planting scale and low income of farmers, the supply of suitable agricultural machinery in the hilly mountainous areas is seriously insufficient and the development is slow, which has become a bottleneck restricting the development of agricultural mechanization and the development of agricultural modernization in China."

Yao Jianmin, Academy of Agricultural Sciences: Improving the level of agricultural mechanization in hilly and mountainous areas

In the survey, such a set of data allowed him to submit such a motion. There are 70 counties in the hilly areas of 119 counties and districts in Shanxi, accounting for more than 75% of the basic farmland area. In 2015, the level of agricultural mechanization in these mountainous counties was less than 40%, which was lower than the mechanization level of the main crops in the province, and 11 of them were below 20%.

The two mountains are the natural condition of Shanxi, and many poor people are distributed in the hills of Taihang Mountain and Luliang Mountain. The low level of agricultural mechanization not only restricts the comprehensive agricultural production efficiency and output efficiency, but also becomes a practical problem for farmers to increase their incomes and get rid of poverty.

Yao Jianmin said that the development of agricultural mechanization in hilly mountainous areas is mainly due to the weak foundation of agricultural mechanization and the high cost of agricultural machinery operations; the local farmers are not strong in economic strength and the purchasing power is not strong; the mechanization investment in hilly mountain areas is insufficient; Shortage of small and medium-sized agricultural machinery with convenient operation; weak ability of basic agricultural machinery promotion services.

In response to this problem, in 2016, the Shanxi Provincial Agricultural Machinery Bureau consolidated funds of 3.15 million yuan, and carried out pilot work on agricultural mechanization in 12 hilly mountainous counties. The project funds are mainly used to subsidize farmers to purchase advanced and applicable agricultural machinery and equipment, carry out machine testing, technical training and demonstration and promotion, aiming at exploring the development mode suitable for agricultural mechanization in hilly and mountainous areas.

Of course, the problem of agricultural mechanization in the hilly and mountainous areas needs to be covered by policies, funds, scientific research, and promotion. Yao Jianmin said that the focus is on expanding the scope of subsidies for equipment in hilly and mountainous areas, increasing the proportion of subsidies for farmers to purchase machinery, increasing the investment of agricultural machinery cooperatives, increasing the funding for research and development of small and medium-sized agricultural machinery in hilly areas, and strengthening the service of grassroots agricultural machinery. The infrastructure of agricultural machinery and equipment.