The Agricultural Information Network (http://www.nongyexinxi.net/) discusses the trend of agricultural mechanization in our country. In the face of the rapid population growth in the 21st century and the enormous pressure on the quantity and quality of food and other agricultural products, world agriculture must undergo a new revolution and reach a higher level of modernization to provide more food and diversified, high-quality agricultural products. The 21st century poses new challenges for world agriculture and agricultural modernization, and also puts forward new requirements for agricultural mechanization.
However, in the new century, the development of agriculture and agricultural modernization in various countries of the world is unbalanced, and the gap between developed and developing countries will not disappear in the short term. The general trend of agricultural mechanization in developing countries is to start from the actual situation of agricultural and rural economic development in their own countries, accelerate the development of agricultural machinery that meets the needs of their own agriculture and the characteristics of the rural economy, which farmers urgently need, and is economical, practical, advanced, and reliable; introduce and digest the new technologies and new products of agricultural machinery from developed countries, accelerate the pace of localization; and take measures such as jointly producing with developed countries the urgently needed agricultural machinery with high technology content in their own countries, striving to improve the level of agricultural mechanization in their own countries, to increase the supply of agricultural products and improve agricultural labor productivity, adapting to the needs of industrialization development.
In the early part of the next century, the agriculture, agricultural modernization, and agricultural machinery science and technology of developed countries will still maintain a leading position. The overall trend of agricultural machinery science and technology is: the application of high technology in new agricultural machinery products will be more extensive; the convenience, comfort, automation, and intelligence level of agricultural machinery use will be further improved; new technologies and equipment serving precise agriculture for the efficient, comprehensive utilization of agricultural environment and agricultural resources will have new developments; the industrialized, factory-based production of agricultural products such as harmless production systems for vegetables, livestock and poultry, aquatic products will see major breakthroughs; and the technology and equipment for the refined deep processing of agricultural products and the comprehensive utilization of by-products will become new growth points for the economy.