On the Industrialization of Agriculture

Abstract

The sixty years of the development of our country's economy have been marked by major changes in agricultural production. Gross yearly agricultural output increased 3.5 times in the period from 1909-13 to 1971-75 (in comparable 1973 prices). While extensive and intensive growth factors both played a part, the increase in the volume of production was primarily due to intensification. Gross output per unit of agricultural land doubled at the same time that gross output per agricultural worker increased 6.2 times. The nation's per capita agricultural output increased 2.2 times. The number of consumers of agricultural products per agricultural production worker increased 2.8 times.