Abstract
Agricultural modernization as an outcome of economic development cannot be achieved within the agricultural sector only. The agricultural transformation process in western countries has revealed that agricultural modernization is a process in which agricultural organizations spontaneously achieve the transformation in agricultural industrial organization and agricultural technology with the core ideology of industrialization. The existing binary system has made Chinese agriculture fail to achieve the transformation in industrial organization and technology synchronically with the industrial sector. Therefore, in the current conditions, in order to facilitate agricultural modernization, we must transform the land system at the level of relations of production, urban and rural household registration system, urban and rural social security system and other key factors, promote the transformation of agricultural industrial organization with the core concept of industrial revolution, thus promoting the spontaneous revolution in agricultural production technology.
Highlights
Agricultural modernization as an outcome of economic development cannot be achieved within the agricultural sector only
The agricultural transformation process in western countries has revealed that agricultural modernization is a process in which agricultural organizations spontaneously achieve the transformation in agricultural industrial organization and agricultural technology with the core ideology of industrialization
The existing binary system has made Chinese agriculture fail to achieve the transformation in industrial organization and technology synchronically with the industrial sector
Summary
As a concept proposed in mid 1990s, agricultural modernization hasn’t got any universal recognition among Chinese scholars. Schultz and Chinese scholars study two levels of the same issue with the former claiming that technological change is an essential condition for agricultural transformation while the latter emphasizing the concrete connotation of technological change in agricultural transformation. Most Chinese and foreign scholars mainly emphasize the technological change in agricultural system while neglecting its structural change Such a deviation in research approach confines agricultural modernization to the technological field, leading to a lack of spontaneous drive and laggard development during the process of agricultural modernization. In such an important period with faster industrialization development, two issues need to be clarified related to agricultural modernization theories.
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