Great progress has been made in the development of agricultural machinery in China in the past five years

[ China Agricultural Machinery Industry News ] In the past five years, China's agricultural mechanization has made great progress.

The villagers of Gurong Township, Dulong District, Lhasa City, Tibet, joined the village to pack the wheat harvested by the combine harvester. Photo by He Penglei

The villagers of Zhengbazhuang Village, Xinjunyu Town, Fengrun District, Tangshan City, Hebei Province, used plant protection drones to spray pesticides on mustard. Photo by Zhu Dayong

There are more than 7,500 peanut harvesters in Qingdao, Shandong Province. This year, the comprehensive mechanization level of peanuts is expected to reach 83%. Zhang Huashe

Mechanization level

The agricultural machinery operation is mainly extended from the cultivation and collection to the whole process of pre-production, mid-production and post-production, and extends from the planting industry to the aquaculture industry and the primary processing of agricultural products. In 2016, the comprehensive mechanization rate of crop cultivation and harvesting in the country reached 65.2%, 8 percentage points higher than that in 2012; the comprehensive mechanization rates of wheat, rice and corn three crops were 94.2%, 79.2%, and 83.1%, respectively; Significant breakthroughs have been made in the mechanization level of weak links such as corn harvesting, and substantial progress has been made in mechanization of major economic crops such as cotton, oil and sugar.

Total equipment

By the end of 2016, the total agricultural machinery power of the country reached 970 million kilowatts, an increase of 20% compared with 2012; the number of large and medium-sized tractors, rice transplanters and combine harvesters reached 6.454 million units, 771,000 units and 1.902 million units respectively. 1.3 times, 1.5 times and 1.5 times of the year, the green environmental protection machines such as deep pine, straw returning and comprehensive utilization, grain drying, etc. grew rapidly, and the facilities agriculture, agricultural product primary processing, aquaculture, forestry and fruit industry machinery grew steadily, rate, high performance. And the proportion of duplex work tools continues to increase.

Technological innovation

The integration of mechanized technology and innovation in agricultural machinery and agronomy has been accelerated, and the results have been widely applied. The green development technologies such as deep soil preparation, precision sowing, deep application of fertilizer and straw returning have been widely promoted, with application scales reaching 10,882 thousand hectares and 4,1971 thousand hectares respectively. 35,142 thousand hectares and 48,000 thousand hectares, 1.1 times, 1.1 times, 1.1 times and 1.4 times in 2012, respectively.

Agricultural machinery socialization service

The main business operators of agricultural machinery represented by agricultural machinery cooperatives are constantly emerging, and the service modes such as cross-regional operations, sub-cultivation, land custody, order operations, and “Internet + agricultural machinery operations” are constantly innovating. In 2016, the number of agricultural machinery operation service organizations reached 187,000, an increase of 20,000 from 2012, including more than 63,000 agricultural machinery cooperatives; the total revenue of agricultural machinery operations reached 538.8 billion yuan, an increase of 12.7% over 2012.