With the formation of modern machine system and the wide application of agricultural machinery, agriculture has changed from manual animal-drawn farm tools to machine production. Tractors, cultivators, combine harvesters, agricultural vehicles, agricultural aircraft and various machines in forestry, animal husbandry and fishery have become the main production tools of agriculture, which has significantly increased the energy input of agriculture. Electronics, atomic energy, laser, remote sensing technology and artificial satellites have also been applied to agriculture. A good and efficient ecosystem has gradually formed.
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The essential connotation of modern agriculture can be summarized as follows: modern agriculture is socialized and commercialized agriculture equipped with modern industry, armed with modern science and technology and managed with modern organization and management methods, and it is a modern industry with strong competitiveness in the national economy.
Modern agriculture is a socialized agriculture that widely uses modern science and technology, means of production provided by modern industry and scientific management methods. In the history of agricultural development divided by the nature and status of agricultural productivity, it is the latest stage of agricultural development.
Mainly refers to the agriculture of economically developed countries and regions after the Second World War. Its basic feature is that modern agricultural machinery systems with excellent technical and economic performance are widely used, so machine work basically replaces human and animal work.
Modern agriculture usually refers to the agriculture based on high industrialization in contemporary economically developed countries. The characteristic of this kind of energy agriculture is that the input of oil can exceed the output of grain, breaking the closed agricultural circular productivity and achieving rapid development, which is faster than the previous two stages.
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