The Direction of Modern Agricultural Development Is Green Agriculture
Agriculture is the foundation of national economy, and it has been proved by the basic theories and the empirical researches of development economics that agricultural productivity can directly affect the process of industrialization and urbanization and
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The Direction of Modern Agricultural Development Is Green Agriculture Biliang Hu
Agriculture is the foundation of national economy, and it has been proved by the basic theories and the empirical researches of development economics that agricultural productivity can directly affect the process of industrialization and urbanization and the development of other industries and economic sectors of a country, especially a large one. It is for this reason that most countries of the world, particularly the developing countries, attach great importance to the positive significance of agriculture to promote the overall national economic development, and especially to the positive significance to ensure national food security and control inflation through the development of agriculture. Meanwhile, it is well known that, compared with the traditional agriculture, one of the important characteristics of the modern agriculture is the use of large amounts of chemical fertilizers, pesticides and other modern elements in order to improve the land productivity, thus increasing the carbon emissions in the agricultural sector and bringing negative impact on the environment. Therefore, if the agriculture needs to sustainably develop in the modern society, we should take the environmental factors into full consideration apart from economic factors. In addition, agriculture has another important feature compared to other economic sectors, that is, the unity of natural production and economic process. The natural resource conditions (such as the quantity and quality of agricultural land, available water and its quality, etc.) have the direct and decisive significance to the agricultural development. Moreover, many important agricultural resources are non-renewable, which determines that the agricultural development must pay special attention to the effective use of natural resources in order to produce more agricultural products with less natural resources. Thus it can be seen that an agricultural question is absolutely not a single economic question, but a comprehensive one including economic, resource and
B. Hu (*) School of Economics and Resource Management, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China e-mail: [email protected] X. Li and J. Pan (eds.), China Green Development Index Report 2012: Regional 789 Comparison, Current Chinese Economic Report Series, DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-54178-0_20, © Beijing Normal University Press & Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2014
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environmental factors, which should be taken into account for the development of modern agriculture. We must strive to increase the food production and reduce the carbon emissions of the agricultural sectors. We should not only maintain the environmentally friendly state of agriculture, but also efficiently use the finite agricultural resources. Combined together, the three factors are actually one question, i.e. the development of green agriculture. Therefore, I believe that the correct direction of the modern agricultural development should be the vigorous
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