最近我们到湖北、江苏、上海作了一点调查,听到各地对农业机械化有不少议论。有人说,按照中国的特点,应该先搞农业的生物技术措施,后搞农业机械化。有人说,农业机械化对提高劳动生产率是明显的,对提高单位面积产量的作用并不大。由于提高单产的作用不大,中国这个人多地少的国家,当前急需解决的是增产的问题,而不是提高劳动生产率的问题。 Recently we went to Hubei, Jiangsu and Shanghai to make some investigations and heard a lot of arguments about agricultural mechanization around China. Some people say that in accordance with the characteristics of China, we should first engage in agricultural biotechnology measures and engage in agricultural mechanization. Some people say that agricultural mechanization is obvious for improving labor productivity and does not have a great effect on improving the yield per unit area. Due to the small increase in yields, China, a country with many and fewer people, is in urgent need of solutions to increase production rather than labor productivity.