[PDF] The Technical Transformation Of Agriculture In Communist China eBook

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Release : 1972
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Study examining the introduction of technology in agriculture for the purpose of promoting agricultural production and productivity in China since 1950 - covers agricultural policies and programmes, agrarian reform, land utilization, land tenure, water supply and soil conservation, fertilization, pest control and the use of pesticides, agricultural machinery, etc., and outlines the national level programme for agricultural development, 1956-67. Maps, references and statistical tables.

Author : On Kit Tam
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 36,92 MB
Release : 2023-08-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1000865851

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Originally published in 1985, this study investigates the actual experience in mechanization during the Fourth Five Year Plan period, a period which represented, in many ways, a new stage in China’s rural development. It examines the historical perspective and the development approach under which mechanization efforts were exerted during this 5-year period and the mechanism, outcomes and problems these entailed. The book addresses the issues involved in agricultural development and mechanization through a more integral analysis of the way technological transformation has been linked to China’s quest for social and economic development.

Author : Leslie Tse-chiu Kuo
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 50,3 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Business & Economics
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Monograph on agrarian structure and technological changes in the agricultural sector in China - describes land reform, the establishment of agricultural cooperatives, the communal land agricultural policy, collective farming, agricultural planning for agricultural development and plan implementation, soil conservation and water conservation, etc. Maps, references and statistical tables.

Author : Joshua Eisenman
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 25,73 MB
Release : 2018-04-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0231546750

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China’s dismantling of the Mao-era rural commune system and return to individual household farming under Deng Xiaoping has been seen as a successful turn away from a misguided social experiment and a rejection of the disastrous policies that produced widespread famine. In this revisionist study, Joshua Eisenman marshals previously inaccessible data to overturn this narrative, showing that the commune modernized agriculture, increased productivity, and spurred an agricultural green revolution that laid the foundation for China’s future rapid growth. Red China’s Green Revolution tells the story of the commune’s origins, evolution, and downfall, demonstrating its role in China’s economic ascendance. After 1970, the commune emerged as a hybrid institution, including both collective and private elements, with a high degree of local control over economic decision but almost no say over political ones. It had an integrated agricultural research and extension system that promoted agricultural modernization and collectively owned local enterprises and small factories that spread rural industrialization. The commune transmitted Mao’s collectivist ideology and enforced collective isolation so it could overwork and underpay its households. Eisenman argues that the commune was eliminated not because it was unproductive, but because it was politically undesirable: it was the post-Mao leadership led by Deng Xiaoping—not rural residents—who chose to abandon the commune in order to consolidate their control over China. Based on detailed and systematic national, provincial, and county-level data, as well as interviews with agricultural experts and former commune members, Red China’s Green Revolution is a comprehensive historical and social scientific analysis that fundamentally challenges our understanding of recent Chinese economic history.