Strategies on Accelerating Agricultural Modernization-Taking Tongnan County As an Example
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Advance Journal of Food Science and Technology 5(9): 1132-1138, 2013 ISSN: 2042-4868; e-ISSN: 2042-4876 © Maxwell Scientific Organization, 2013 Submitted: April 04, 2013 Accepted: May 11, 2013 Published: September 05, 2013 Strategies on Accelerating Agricultural Modernization-taking Tongnan County as an Example Yongyong Zhu Department of Economics and Business Administration, Chongqing University of Education, Chongqing 400067, China Civil and Commercial Law School, Southwest University of Political Science and Law, Chongqing 400031, China Abstract: Agricultural modernization is organically integrated with the development of industrialization and urbanization. Agricultural modernization is the key and difficult point in the simultaneous development with Chinese characteristics industrialization, informatization and urbanization. This study takes Tongnan county as an example and analyzes the measures and strategies to step up agricultural modernization from perspectives of organizational leadership and assessment, spatial layout and base industries, creative demonstration and scientific popularization, information circulation system, policy support and incentive mechanism and innovation of Financial insurance cooperation organization, with aiming to accelerate agricultural modernization, enhance the fast increase in farmers’ income, improve rural living condition and promote the synchronous development of industrialization, informationization, urbanization and agricultural modernization. Keywords: Agricultural informatization, modern agriculture, rural circulation, urban and rural development, vegetable demonstration INTRODUCTION government planning report that in 2017, Tongnan County will basically build up the national modern Tongnan County locates in the northeast of agricultural demonstration area, take the lead in the Chongqing City, which is the crucial part of Sichuan- general realization of the agricultural modernization, Chongqing region, with Hechuan to the east, Tongliang make the agricultural modernization advanced in and Dazu to the south, Anyue to the west and Suining to Chongqing, make total value of agricultural output the north. Tongnan is the intersection and regional exceed 10000 million Yuan, increase land geometric center of the natural and convenient comprehensive productivity by 50% and agricultural transportation trend of Sichuan and Chongqing, the labor productivity by 20%, make agricultural central region of Chengdu-Chongqing economic zone, comprehensive mechanization reach more than 52% and the gateway which is the farthest one protruded from marketable farm producucts reach 80%, increase annual western Chongqing to Sichuan central region and the average rural per capita net income by 15%, reaching cutting-edged and most important one of the opening- 16000 Yuan. Effectively reduce the rural population in ups with the most Sichuan-adjoined counties and cities, Tongnan through the guidance of policies and improve the leading edge of Chongqing one-hour economic the economic efficiency of agriculture in Tongnan circle and the central city of Chongqing physical through the appropriate scale of operation and intensive geography and traffic fort in future Sichuan-Chongqing standardized production. Support the development of handshake area. Tongnan has an area of 1583 km2, modern agriculture by combining industrialized scoping 2 streets, 20 counties, 283 administrative technical and material production capacity and the villages and 19 neighborhood committees, with a advantages of information technology. The research in population of 950000. It locates in the basin of shallow this study will promote the connection of hill, where the climate is pleasant and the seasons are industrialization and urbanization development in distinctive, with the elevation of 300 to 450 m, the Tongnan and the sustainable development of agriculture annual average temperature of 17.9°C and the annual and agricultural modernization process as well. average precipitation of 990 mm. The Fujiang and Qiongjiang River traverse the county and the reserve of MATERIALS AND METHODS natural gas is 30000 million m3. Agricultural modernization is organically integrated The guiding ideology of research on the progress with the development of industrialization and route and strategy of advancing Tongnan agricultural urbanization. It is pointed out in the 2012 Tongnan modernization is to speed up the construction of 1132 Adv. J. Food Sci. Technol., 5(9): 1132-1138, 2013 modern agricultural industry system, put forth effort to vegetable supplying base of the main city of reinforce the science and technology support, Chongqing. The landform of Tongnan is the basin of practically enhance infrastructure construction and shallow hill, the Fujiang and Qiongjiang River have explore a characteristic and effective way of modern sufficient water resource and there are many alluvial agriculture which conforms to the reality of Tongnan, dams, so it can develop vegetables with particularly with the premise of scientific outlook on development, favorable natural conditions. We have fully promoted enriching people and prospering Tongnan, the principal the construction of agricultural modernization with the line of transforming agriculture development mode, the goal of ensuring supply and increasing income and the goal of increasing agricultural quality benefit, tongs of constructing national modern agricultural guaranteeing market supply and increasing farmers’ demonstration area and the western green vegetable income, the main attack direction of increasing overall capital. From January to August 2012, Tongnan newly agricultural productivity, anti-risk capability and market added 60000 mu of multiple cropping acreage, the total competition capability and the elementary path of area reaches 850000 mu and the output is 1700000 ton increasing agricultural land output, resource utilization which occupies 25% of the market shares of rate and labor productivity (Chongqing, 2011). Chongqing. Tongnan make the vegetable industry as Research on the progress route and strategy of the leading industry of the construction of national advancing Tongnan agricultural modernization needs to modern agricultural demonstration zone. With the follow the way of efficiency priority, farmer subjected thinking of ensuring the supply of main city, beaming and market oriented, insist urban and rural coordination, the western China and servicing the whole nation, coordinately carry forward industrialization, Tongnan has constructed 260000 mu of standardized urbanization and agricultural modernization, boost rural vegetable bases, which is based on the dam fields along reform and institutional innovation and build the long- Fujiang and Qiongjiang River. Of which, 12 term mechanism of “promoting agriculture with industry standardized vegetable bases belong to ten thousand-mu and leading the country by the city”, thus promote grade and the rate of land flow in the vegetable bases is urban-rural interaction, resource sharing and mutual 80%. By introducing and cultivating 11 leading introducing of elements and form the new pattern of enterprises of the city level, the vegetable base has urban and rural integration development. To select realized large-scale and industrialized operation. Of construction mode of agricultural modernization which, Mingyu Company, Hanfei Company and scientifically, adjust measures to local conditions, give Nonglong Company have become the masters of edible classification guidance, concentrate strengths and take mushrooms, pig feeding and vegetable planting of the leading in the breakthrough (Zhang, 2011). People Chongqing respectively. Tongnan has been honored should boost market-oriented strategic adjustment of with national venture base of agrotechny, with the agricultural structures, energetically develop high- vegetable processing capacity of 300000 ton and the quality, efficient, ecological and safe agricultural production value of 2100 million Yuan. The promotion products and make great efforts to promote the quality of productivity needs the cooperation of science, and benefit of agriculture. To fully apply market technology and marketing. With science and mechanism with arouse diverse subjects to participate in technology popularization and brand construction, the activities of agricultural modernization construction Tongnan has enhanced the cooperation with domestic (Zhen-Long, 2012). To transform the function of and international scientific research institutions, government positively, build favorable policy popularized more than 130 fine varieties such as environment and offer efficient public service for Korean radishes, Japanese scallions, etc., authorized agricultural modernization construction. To respect 103 nuisance free agricultural products, 69 high-quality farmers’ wills, give full play to farmers’ dominant role agricultural products and 3 branded agricultural and pioneering spirit, continually improve the products, registered green trademarks of Tongnan, organization degree of agricultural production and make constructed the major county of green vegetables of the concerted efforts to promote agricultural modernization. city and made the brand of green organics. With the Therefore, we have researched deeply on the progress opening of internet direct sales of vegetables, Tongnan and strategies of advancing Tongnan agricultural has expanded marketing channels, built three- modernization by means of actual visit, issuing dimensional marketing