What is modern agriculture?

Modern agriculture is an agriculture developed on the basis of modern industry and modern science and technology. It refers to the socialized agriculture that widely applies modern science and technology, means of production provided by modern industry and scientific management methods. In short, it is the use of science to develop agriculture, which can also be said to be industrialized agriculture. It germinated in the capitalist industrialization period and formed after the Second World War.

The significance of modern agriculture construction:

Accelerating the pace of modern agricultural construction is beneficial for liberating and developing rural productivity, improving comprehensive agricultural production capacity and efficiency, and promoting the comprehensive development of rural economy and society; It is conducive to the introduction of industrial technology achievements, improving the quality of agricultural development, enhancing communication and interaction between urban and rural areas and workers and farmers, and achieving coordinated development between urban and rural areas; It is conducive to the rational utilization of resources, the protection and improvement of the ecological environment, the enhancement of agricultural sustainable development capacity, and the promotion of harmonious coexistence between humans and nature.

The main characteristics of modern agriculture:

The extensive use of modern science and technology, from adapting to nature to consciously using and transforming nature, from relying on traditional experience to relying on science, has become a scientific agriculture, which is based on highly developed botany, zoology, chemistry, physics and other sciences; Investing a large amount of material and energy produced by the industrial sector into agricultural production in exchange for a large amount of agricultural products, becoming industrialized agriculture; Agricultural production has embarked on a path of regionalization and specialization, transitioning from a natural economy to a highly developed commodity economy, becoming a commercialized and socialized agriculture.