Large-scale farming promotes agricultural green development in China

• Main Authors: GU Baojing, DUAN Jiakun, REN Chenchen, WANG Sitong, WANG Chen
• Format: Article
• Language: zho
• Published: Agro-Environmental Protection Institute, Ministry of Agriculture 2021-09-01
• Series: Journal of Agricultural Resources and Environment
• Subjects: large-scale farming; food security; non-point source pollution; aging; urbanization; cropland-based livestock production; dietary structure
• Online Access: http://www.aed.org.cn/nyzyyhjxb/html/2021/5/20210501.htm

China's agriculture needs to feed 1.4 billion people and excessive fertilizer use has caused agricultural non-point source pollution. It is urgent to control agricultural non-point source pollution while ensuring food security. In this paper, we reviewed the development of agricultural productivity and productive relations in China since 1949. Smallholders face problems of the overuse of fertilizer, labor aging and hollow villages in China. Appropriate large-scale farming could alleviate these problems and lead to green development. Urbanization could promote large-scale farming in China and rebuilding the linkage between livestock and cropland is also needed. Where there is not suitable for large-scale farming, extension of industrial chain could revitalize agriculture via the integration of different industries. In the future, government and market should work together to guide rural-to-urban immigration to promote large-scale farming, encourage alternative farming models and finally promote agricultural modernization.